As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

The spacecraft's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is responsible for studying the surface of the Sun, also known as the photosphere. It does that by snapping images as well as measuring ...

The Sun's surface is a highly active region in the Solar System, with fissures opening up regularly that affect us on Earth.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released four new, stellar images of the sun, including the highest resolution views to date of its full, visible surface, called the photosphere.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

which is swooping to within 6.2 million kilometers of the Sun's surface, the closest we've ever been. But what if we wanted an even closer look? Our first stop gets pretty hot. At 7 million to 10 ...

At 8,000 pixels, they're the highest-resolution full views of the sun's visible surface to date and reveal spectacular detail. “If you want to understand the Sun in its entirety, it is essential ...

Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...

The viewer in the moon’s shadow sees scattered light from the sun’s surface that hits all of the electrons in the corona before scattering away. If you want to know the 3D structure of the ...