A stunning new set of images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope shows the surface of the sun in incredible detail — including frankly disturbing images of sunspots seen up close.

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope’s new Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) instrument has achieved “first light,” capturing detailed images of sunspots at an unprecedented 10km resolution.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have finally captured the first images of the Sun’s chromosphere. The ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ultra-powerful imaging tool. Here’s what you can see.

Using your camera or phone would cause the heat from the rays to become so concentrated that it could melt the lens inside. And, if you use binoculars or a telescope to look closer at the eclipse ...

CCOR-1, the world’s first operational, space-based coronagraph, began observing the sun’s corona, the faint outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, on Sept. 19.

NASA's newest solar observatory has taken its first photos of the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere, a mysterious and little-understood region of the sun. IE 11 is not supported.

To celebrate the Hubble telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA released some striking new images on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a ...