A joint effort between international astronomers may have helped to make an important discovery regarding the Sun, the very heart of our Solar System. Image Credit: HMI/SDO/NASA While observing years ...

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 ...

The Sun’s extremely hot outer layer, the corona, has a very different chemical composition from the cooler inner layers, but the reason for this has puzzled scientists for decades. One explanation is ...

How was the sun formed, what are its layers, and how does it impacts Earth? The sun is a medium sized dwarf star in the Milky Way galaxy and it is what fuels all life on our planet. Find out how the ...

How hot is the sun? Here are the scorching temperatures of the star's layers The sun provides energy that is vital for life on Earth, and that energy comes as a result of the sun’s heat. But how hot ...