Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no wonder astrophotographers like Johnston are turning their attention to our home star, because you never quite know what ...

Just as the Moon completely covered the Sun during the April 8 eclipse, observers noticed an extremely bright point of light shining along the limb of the Moon. Was this a solar flare, and if not, ...

The dazzling red features, witnessed by millions during totality, were anticipated as a result of the Sun nearing its solar maximum phase. Reading time 2 minutes We were hoping for something like this ...

As the Sun nears solar maximum, an abundance of phenomena dance across its surface. The chromosphere—the layer of the Sun sandwiched between the photosphere and the corona—swirls with filaments, ...

A massive solar filament erupted today (May 7), producing a stunning display that spanned the sun's eastern limb and reached deep into the solar disk. Filaments are cooler, dense ribbons of solar ...

As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that were reddish, pink and orange in hue — along the periphery of the moon ...

An elongated solar prominence rose up above the sun’s surface and slowly unraveled on Feb. 3, 2016, as seen in this video by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. Prominences, also known as ...

Stunning images of solar flames, sunspots were captured and compiled in one clip by UAE astronomers from the skies of Abu Dhabi in Al-Khatim Astronomical Observatory. The footage shows some solar ...

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