Solar Astronomy
Sun’s Corona Simulated
A new simulation by NASA and the National Science Foundation accurately predicted what the Sun's corona should look like during…
SOHO Mission Extended Through 2009
Artist illustration of SOHO and the Sun. Image credit: ESA. Click to enlarge NASA and ESA's long-running Solar and Heliospheric…
Solar Forecasting Decades Out
Solar astronomers are predicting a very low solar cycle 15 years from now, based on recent observations of the Sun.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…