The Sun looks smooth and featureless to the naked eye, but at close range its surface is a churning sea of magnetized plasma.

Observed directly in the solar photosphere for the first time, the vortices might braid magnetic fields, thought to be ...

The sharpest images ever taken of the Sun’s surface reveal ribbons of solar plasma curling into tight, wave-like vortices ...

The sun's surface is revealed in unprecedented detail by new telescope images, just as scientists prepare for the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse.

Scientists confirmed the long-predicted phenomenon for the first time, a discovery that could shed new light on explosive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface (photosphere) ever captured, taken at 416 nm by the Inouye Solar Telescope. It ...

NSO team images Kelvin–Helmholtz instability structures at about 20 km resolution on the Sun’s visible surface ...

The highest resolution views of the sun’s visible surface have revealed whirlpools that could drive solar activity.

A team of scientists at the NSF National Solar Observatory has published, in a paper out today in Nature, the first confirmed observation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities on the Sun's photosphere — ...

For six and a half days in July 2024, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III kept its gaze fixed on the sun. The stratospheric flight, which stretched from the northernmost tip of Sweden to ...

The sunlight reaching Earth from the Sun's visible surface crosses space in about 8 minutes. Before that, however, the ...