World’s largest Artificial Sun
Scientists switch on world’s largest ‘artificial sun’ in German lab.
Using the Sun to create the ultimate Space Telescope
Scientists using the sun wants to create the ultimate Space Telescope, based on gravitational microlensing.
First Solar Images from NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite
The first images from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite.
Black Sun
Detailed solar view captured in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted. Credit Jim Lafferty
Enormous Coronal Hole
An elongated coronal hole rotated across the face of the sun this past week so that it is now streaming solar wind towards Earth (Jan. 2-5, 2017).
Space Station Solar Transit
This composite image, made from ten frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six on board, in silhouette as it transits the sun at
What would happen if the Sun disappeared?
Take a look at this science fiction scenario, what would happen if the Sun disappeared, infographic…
Inverted City of Chicago beneath Clouds
In this rare image, the city of Chicago projected upside-down beneath clouds. Image credit Mark Hersch
21,000 Suns in a laboratory
Scientists have created a solar simulator that replicates the heat and light of the sun’s radiation.
50,000 Kilometers above the Sun
A monster prominence, a sheath of thin gas held above the surface by the Sun’s magnetic field, pictured with a small telescope.