A Sundial showing Solstice
If the day and time are right, this peculiar sundial will tell you: SOLSTICE. Image credit Jean-Marc Mari
First-ever mission to ‘touch’ the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to “touch” the sun.
The Mystery of Solar Flares explained
A new research that leads to better understanding of the Sun’s activity, shows that large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by
Sun Halo and Plane Contrail
Several common features of the daytime sky are interacting in uncommon ways, in this picture captured in West Greece, by Alexandros Maragos.
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.
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
