NASA's new CMEx mission will measure the Sun's chromosphere magnetism, the origin of solar storms, hoping to improve solar ...

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 ...

Small-scale magnetic structures of the ‘quiet sun’ at high resolution. Credit: DKIST Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries, having captured ...

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 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 ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) As tempting as it is to cite one, no single number can describe the temperature of the whole Sun. Its layers are at ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...