Inside a donut-shaped vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, superheated plasma recently did something it was not supposed to do: it ...

A NASA spacecraft has beamed home a spectacular new view of the sun, a photo that captures a vast tendril of solar plasma reaching across the surface of our nearest star. NASA's Solar Dynamics ...

Scientists captured the highest-resolution images of the sun’s corona to date. The plasma is artificially colorized in the image, with darker pink colors corresponding to brighter light. Schmidt et al ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

The cooler, denser plasma appears dark against the raging surface of the sun in this view from a NASA spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

The Sun’s outermost atmosphere, the corona, seethes at temperatures above one million degrees. Yet draped across it are ...

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NASA has selected the CubeSat Imaging X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS), led by Southwest Research Institute, to measure the elemental composition of hot, multimillion-degree plasmas in the Sun’s ...

"So far, no spacecraft mission has provided predictions regarding these phenomena close to the sun." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

An astrophotographer has captured a jaw-dropping 236,000 mile-high wall of Sun plasma. Argentinan Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau, 51, snapped the amazing spectacle on Wednesday (17 July). Eduardo, of ...

A NASA spacecraft watching the sun has caught a dazzling view of a solar eruption that launched a vast tendril of magnetic plasma into space. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...