“Raindrops” on a Fireball: Sharpest-Ever Look Inside the Sun’s Wild Corona

“Raindrops” on a Fireball: Sharpest-Ever Look Inside the Sun’s Wild Corona

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar activity and hinting at answers to long-standing space weather questions. In a major breakthrough, scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory and the New Jersey Institute of Technology have captured the most detailed images [...]

Unlocking the Sun: Inside NASA and ESA’s Daring Missions to Touch the Solar Inferno

The Sun is our life-giving star – a 4.6-billion-year-old solar inferno that governs Earth’s climate and space environment. Understanding the Sun is not only vital for fundamental science, but also for protecting modern technology and astronauts from space weather (solar storms that can disrupt satellites and power grids) nasa.gov nasa.gov. Yet many solar mysteries endure, such as why the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) blazes hundreds of tim…