What makes Saturn’s atmosphere so hot The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants—Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune—are hot, just like Earth’s. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets […]
NSF’s newest solar telescope produces first images, most detailed images of the sun Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and […]
Flying solo: Solar Orbiter will take first-ever direct images of solar poles Solar Orbiter will orbit our nearest star, the sun, observing it up close. It will take the first-ever direct images of its poles, […]
Researchers estimate the mass of the Milky Way to be 890 billion times that of our sun An international team of researchers has used sophisticated models to calculate the mass of the Milky Way. They […]
For The First Time, Scientists See The Sun Transfer Energy From Its Interior to Atmosphere You can’t tell from Earth, but the Sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface – it’s […]
Evidence found of magnetic reconnection generating spicules on the sun An international team of researchers has found evidence that magnetic reconnection is the source of spicule generation on the surface of the sun. In their […]