The Hubble Telescope appears as a tiny silhouette during a perfectly timed solar transit captured from Puerto Rico.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Mark Johnston We have some incredibly powerful telescopes that have given us spectacular ...

Weather on Earth can be wild, but it's not the only kind of weather we have to deal with. Space weather — all the winds and particles streaming off the sun — can have major impacts on Earth and human ...

Katelyn Eaman can appreciate the power of the sun better than most. The geology graduate student researches how Mars’ now-barren landscape was carved and transformed by ancient waterways. That water ...

A close-up of the sun's surface from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope shows magnetic activity around a cluster of sunspots. - VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA ...

You’ve probably seen closeup images of the Sun before, revealing sunspots, solar storms or something else entirely. But you’ve never seen the Sun quite like this. These images were recently captured ...

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Summary: The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO), achieved a major ...

The first images of the chromosphere – the area of the Sun’s atmosphere above the surface – taken with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on June 3rd, 2022. The image shows a region 82,500 ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...