The sun's lower atmosphere, the chromosphere, is usually drowned out by light from below it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

The image below is of the solar chromosphere and was taken in 1999 during a total solar eclipse. The red and pink hues seen around the edges are created by light emitted by hydrogen. The bright colors ...

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Astronomers have finally captured the first images of the Sun's chromosphere. The image was made possible thanks to the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. The images that the National Science ...

Imagine for a minute that you have been transported to the middle layers of the sun’s atmosphere. The sun’s surface, the “visible disc” scientists call the photosphere, boils below you, red-hot plasma ...

July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and ...

States like Florida, Texas and California are no strangers to routine rocket launches − but New Mexico? Spacecraft also sometimes get off the ground from the state. Space news coverage may be ...

Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC by ...

SNIFS mission team. Image Credit: NASA. On July 18, NASA successfully launched a sounding rocket mission from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, carrying a remarkable new technology. Its ...

Back in the fall Nobel Intent covered the launch of the Solar B probe, a joint operation between NASA, the ESA, and the Japanese space agency. Just recently the probe, renamed Hinode—Japanese for ...

How can the temperature of the Sun's atmosphere be as high as 1 million degrees Celsius when its surface temperature is only around 6000°C? By simulating the evolution of part of the Sun's interior ...