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Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...

According to NASA, the best estimates put the edge of the corona — known as the Alfvén critical surface — anywhere from 6.8 million to 13.7 million kilometres out, or roughly 10 to 20 times ...

NASA will begin its live stream at 7:15 p.m. IST to show the hatch closure between Endurance and the ISS, scheduled for 7:50 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than ever before, offering the first direct glimpse into the turbulent ...

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept it habitable for billions of years, allowing complex things like human beings to evolve.

Special cameras known as coronagraphs give us longer observations of the corona. Two flying in space right now, one on the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and the other on the ...

(NASA, NASA/ESA) However, views of the 'mid-corona' remain elusive. Telescopes that observe the Sun's surface and inner corona aren't sensitive enough to see activitiy in the mid-corona.

NASA has just released the closest-ever images of the sun, captured by its Parker Solar Probe on its record-breaking flyby into the outermost layer of the star’s atmosphere late last year. The ...

Researchers have plenty of data about the inner and outer corona — the regions closest to the Sun's surface and farthest out from the Sun. The inner corona is revealed in nearly every image taken by ...