City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, showing our star as we’ve never seen it before ...

A TANGLED SKEIN Splendid loops in the corona protrude from the sun’s surface, seen in this 2014 ultraviolet image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.They are anchored in the sun’s messy ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

The team captured images of “solar braiding,” the transfer of energy from the sun’s magnetic fields to the corona, theorized in 1983 but never observed. Astronomers have long seen loops of magnetic ...

The sun's atmosphere has three layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere and the corona. We explore each layer in more detail here.

Our sun, a giant ball of plasma, is a magnetically messy place. It hosts plasma layers in place of its solid surface, and each layer rotates at a different speed. The result is a tangled ...

Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is even hotter than the sun's surface. Accessibility links.