Solar Astronomy
Breaking News: Watch A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
[/caption] The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today,…
Aurora Alert! Solar Flare Heading Our Way
An active sunspot (1123) erupted early this morning (Nov. 12th), producing a C4-class solar flare and apparently hurling a filament…
Solar Explosions Spark Controversy
[/caption] Nowhere in the Solar System are conditions more extreme than the Sun. Every second it converts millions of tons…
Breaking News: The Sun Worked 175 Years Ago!
[/caption]You'll have to forgive my title. After writing so many articles as moderately as I could, I couldn't help but…
NASA to Send a Probe Into the Sun
[/caption] NASA recently announced its choices for the experiments to fly aboard the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, which is slated…
The Race to Stellar Formation
[/caption] Racing is rarely the term that comes to mind when one considers astronomy. However, many events are a race…
Sound Waves from Distant Star Reveal Magnetic Solar Cycle
[/caption] Astronomers have been able to monitor a the sound waves of a star 100 light years away and found…
Amazing Sunspot Image from New Solar Telescope
[/caption] A new type of adaptive optics for solar observations has produced some incredible results, providing the most detailed image…
Amazing Image: Map of Magnetic Field Lines of the Sun
[/caption] The Sun's corona is threaded with a complex network of magnetic fields, and this amazing new image from the…
Venus and Mercury Blasted by Recent Solar Storms
Update: Well, it turns out that while it looks like Venus and Mercury are getting pummeled by Coronal Mass Ejections,…