Scientists have discovered that the sun and its nearest twin star, Alpha Centauri A, share an odd solar quirk: a puzzling cool layer in their wispy, hot atmospheres. The different temperatures of the ...
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 ...
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released this pretty neat animation back in 2012, which shows how light streaming up from inside the sun through its many layers. Did you know that the light that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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