Don’t worry, it’s doing fine. A black and white image shows a silvery sheet of material toward the bottom. (Image credit: NASA) On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could
“We thought we had this star figured out, but that’s not the case.” An image of the sun. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) In a record-breaking discovery, scientists detected our very own sun emitting an extraordinary amount of gamma rays — wavelengths
The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 4:25 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2022. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar
Researchers looked through historical documents dating back to the fourth century to find total solar eclipses. Ancient records of total solar eclipses, like this one pictured in Casper, Wyoming, have been discovered. (Image credit: ESA/M.P. Ayucar, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
Solar eruptions trigger auroras on Earth. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) An intense series of eruptions on the sun may trigger a strong geomagnetic storm on Earth Thursday (Aug. 18), spawning stunning aurora displays farther south of their usual polar regions. The geomagnetic