Solar Astronomy
Next Solar Max Will Be a Big One
Illustration of the "conveyor belt" on the Sun. Image credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. We've now reached the Sun's solar…
18 years ago
SOHO Can See Right Through the Sun
The Sun. Image credit: NASA/ESA Click to enlarge NASA researchers have developed a technique that allows them to look right…
18 years ago
Solar Minimum Doesn’t Mean a Calm Sun
Our star goes through an 11-year cycle of solar activity. At the recent height of the cycle, the Sun blasted…
19 years ago
More Sunlight is Hitting the Earth
The amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface has been on the rise for the past decade on average, potentially…
19 years ago
SOHO Sees a Huge Prominence on the Sun
The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft took a beautiful picture of an enormous prominence, 700,000 kilometres across, ejected from the surface of…
20 years ago