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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a result, sunspots have constantly littered the sun's surface this year in numbers not seen for decades. These dark spots have ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

The study may help predict dangerous solar storms and protect satellites and power grids.

The ASPIICS (Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun) coronagraph aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 captured time-lapse images of ...

A NASA spacecraft watching the sun has caught a dazzling view of a solar eruption that launched a vast tendril of magnetic plasma into space. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

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The new computer simulations are based on a magnetic field structure that is often associated with prominences: the magnetic field lines in the corona form a double arc with a small dip in the middle.