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WISPR Team Images Turbulence within Solar Transients for the First Time
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been in studying the Sun for the last six years. In 2021 it was hit…
Inside a Week to Totality: Weather Prospects, Solar Activity and More
Looking at prospects for eclipse day and totality.
The Search for the Perfect Coronagraph to Find Earth 2.0
Studying exoplanets is made more difficult by the light from the host star. Coronagraphs are devices that block out the…
Small Magnetic Fields Have a Big Impact on the Sun's Atmosphere
Surrounding the brilliant Sun is a layer of diffuse plasma known as the corona. You can't see it most of…
Solar Orbiter Continues to Get Closer to the Sun, Revealing More and More With Each Pass
On April 10th, ESA's Solar Orbiter made its closest flyby of the Sun, coming to within just 29% of the…
Coronal Loops Might Not Be Loops At All
We've all seen the gorgeous images and videos of coronal loops. They're curved magnetic forms that force brightly glowing plasma…
Parker Solar Probe Flies Through the Sun’s Outer Atmosphere for the First Time
For the first time ever, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe passed through…
Here are the First Pictures From the Parker Solar Probe. Wait… That’s Not the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe recently collected its first-light data in order to test its instruments, and snapped some beautiful pictures…
The Sun is Actually One of the Most Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System. Here’s how the Parker Solar Probe Will Do It
The Parker Solar Probe, which will spend the next seven years getting closer to the Sun than any previous mission,…
What Was the Carrington Event?
In 1859, the Sun gave off the most powerful solar flare on record. A blast of radiation and particles so…