In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most ...

For most of the sun, the temperature drops as you move away from the center. This makes sense, since it's nuclear fusion in the core that heats the sun. So you would expect the corona to be cooler ...

STEREO-A and WIND spacecraft that were distributed around the sun. To reproduce the observations, the simulations have been made to follow radio-waves. The research is published in the journal ...

As the wind blows, waves form, depicted by arms moving up and down ... Start in a space, stretching up towards the sun, as water ‘evaporates’. Skip through the spaces to find a partner ...

Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun collide with gases in Earth's ... The result is a glowing light show that appears in waves, curtains or arcs across the sky.