Solar Astronomy
Solar Orbiter is Already Starting to Observe the Sun
The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data…
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
Most Powerful Solar Telescope on Earth Rises Atop Hawaiian Volcano
Rising 10,000 feet above the sunburned faces of 2.2 million tourists a year, the largest solar telescope on the planet…
The Sun Blasts Out Two X-Class Flares, Strongest of the Year
The Sun gets active! On May 12, 2013, the Sun emitted what NASA called a “significant” solar flare, classified as…
“Bad Boy” Sunspot Unleashes Powerful X-Class Flare
The active region on the Sun that created all the hubbub and aurorae earlier this week put out one last…
Borexino Collaboration Detects pep Neutrinos
[/caption] Solar neutrino physics has quieted down over the past decade. In the past, it had been a source of…
Sun Celebrates Solstice With Flare (and a CME)
[/caption] Late in the evening on June 20, 2011 the Sun emitted a long lasting C7.7 class flare (a relatively…
Monster Prominence Erupts from Sun
Early this morning (June 7, 2011) an amazingly massive and spectacular event took place on the Sun; a huge prominence…
Comet Death-Dives into Active Sun
The SOHO spacecraft coronagraph captured a sun-diving comet on May 10th and 11th that met its demise as it plunged…
Earths Entire Star for the First Time on Super SUNday
[/caption] Super Bowl SUNday XLV marks a watershed moment in observing our Sun. Today, February 6, 2011, NASA’s twin STEREO…