Each layer of the sun’s atmosphere exhibits distinct traits. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun's atmosphere is made up of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA has released some never-before-seen images of the Sun taken by the agency’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. The array is typically used to see objects outside our solar system ...

The sun might soon batter us with a shower of deep space rays so intense, it could cause part of our atmosphere to collapse. Space scientists reckon we are on the verge of a “deep solar minimum,” ...