The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

A new 8K camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Tenerife captures images of the Sun's surface in stunning detail.

This state-of-the-art imaging technology, developed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), provides a significant leap in resolving power by capturing and restoring high-resolution ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal Lettersexplores the fine-scale structure of the Sun’s surface, ...

Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.

This image shows the Sun’s magnetic fields over a NASA photo from March 12, 2016. Bright spots mark strong magnetic areas, connected by many lines. This image from June 20, 2013, shows a bright solar ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

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 sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at ... The European Space Agency released four stunning images last week that show the sun in all its fiery glory. The images, obtained ...

The brightest comet of the year was spotted skimming just past the sun ... so bright, it overwhelmed LASCO's sensor, creating artificial horizontal bands (known as "bleeding") in the images ...

The photos also showed a bright streak of light ... "Only one week ago, Comet ATLAS passed very close to the sun," Spaceweather.com reported. "The thermal stress may have been too much." ...