Though perhaps not as surprising as DKIST’s, they are nonetheless the closest images of the sun ever taken, from just over 47 million miles away (about half the distance from Earth to the sun).

The probes are now sending back images of the star, front and back, allowing scientists for the first time to view the entire Sun in 3D. Each of the probes captures images of half of the Sun and ...

Earlier this year, NASA released a stunning 61-minute time-lapse video that shows a decade in the life of the sun.The video was created from images taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

On July 16th, the European Space Agency and NASA unveiled the closest images of the Sun ever taken, captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft that launched in February 2020. The pictures are ...

The images that the National Science Foundation shared this week were taken back in June. Now, we can finally look at the part of the atmosphere resting just above the Sun’s surface , which was ...

The first photos of the sun were taken in the first half of the 19th century and they paved the way for many important solar observations in the future.

They usually have image fields of around 75,000 kilometers (47,000 miles) in diameter, while VTT's is 200,000 kilometers (125,000 miles), so that the large-scale structures in the active Sun and ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas ...