(Nanowerk News) RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms, the shortest ever ...

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a first beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms. This light was created using SACLA ...

The sun unleashed an M1.5-class solar flare (lower left) on July 3, 2013, a solar fireworks to the traditional Fourth of July holiday in the United States. [Read the Full Story] The sun erupted with ...

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The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) images the Sun's atmosphere in several wavelengths, here the 191 Angstrom wavelength emitted by iron-9 at more ...

A snaking, extended filament of solar material currently lies on the front of the Sun — some 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) across from end to end. Filaments are clouds of solar material ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the sun 24 hours a day, has observed this gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun. If straightened out, the ...