A Giant Mouth Has Opened on The Sun And Even It Looks Surprised

A Giant Mouth Has Opened on The Sun And Even It Looks Surprised

A giant mouth-like hole in the Sun about as wide as five Jupiters is blasting hot Sun breath in Earth's general direction.It's not an actual hole in the Sun, but what is known as a coronal hole: a region where the Sun's magnetic field opens up, allowing the wind of solar particles constantly blowing from our Sun to escape more readily, sending a gust of material blasting through the Solar System. If you look at the Sun in optical wavelengths…

Never-before-seen views of the Sun show plasma 'raindrops'

Images beamed back to Earth from the Sun have revealed stunning new details about the star's outer atmosphere, including 'plasma raindrops' and swirling magnetic prominences

Magnetic Curtains on the Sun: NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Reveals Ultra-Fine Striations in Solar Surface

In a new study, scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) used the NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope to capture the sharpest-ever view of the Sun's surface, revealing magnetic "stripes," or striations, just 20 kilometers wide.