In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences depicted a complete physical image of the anomalous heating in the upper ...

The image below is of the solar chromosphere and was taken in 1999 during a total solar eclipse. The red and pink hues seen around the edges are created by light emitted by hydrogen. The bright colors ...

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise – carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013—scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in ...

Each layer of the sun’s atmosphere exhibits distinct traits. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun's atmosphere is made up of ...

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Scientists have unravelled the science behind the jets of plasma - the fourth state of matter consisting of electrically charged particles that occur just about everywhere in the sun’s chromosphere, ...

The chromosphere still continues to puzzle scientists. How is it possible that with increasing distance from the Sun’s hot core the temperature in this layer increases on average by 6000 Kelvin? "At ...

SNIFS mission team. Image Credit: NASA. On July 18, NASA successfully launched a sounding rocket mission from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, carrying a remarkable new technology. Its ...

Back in the fall Nobel Intent covered the launch of the Solar B probe, a joint operation between NASA, the ESA, and the Japanese space agency. Just recently the probe, renamed Hinode—Japanese for ...