On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will graze the sun's "surface" — the photosphere, or sun's visible part — at a ...

Android phones have a cool function called Photo Sphere — unfortunately, unless you’re very steady and can manipulate the phone around its camera’s axis… the results aren’t that amazing.

While some are hoping for a bright "Halloween comet," astronomers say the speeding cosmic snowball has likely already broken ...

And the next layer is just as perilous: the photosphere. This is the surface of the sun we see every day. Down here, you'll start to feel pretty lousy, because the sun's gravity is so strong ...

There were only a few small sunspots marring the otherwise clear photosphere, as shown below. This image of the Sun's ...

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More commonly, this star goes by the name Fomalhaut, and it has been a valuable target for observation with telescopes like ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes its seventh Venus flyby, bringing it closer to its historic approach to the sun. With groundbreaking discoveries about the sun's mysteries and Venus' surface, the ...

This corona is about a million times fainter than the sun’s photosphere, the bright yellowy surface that usually completely overwhelms it. The only time the corona is visible to the naked eye is ...

Right now, with the Parker Solar Probe, they're enjoying the delights of flying through the Sun's outer atmosphere, a mere 8 million km from the star's surface, or photosphere - the very place ...

Calling all daredevils. You’re traveling through our Solar System when suddenly, you have the opportunity to reach out and touch our biggest and brightest celestial body. Touching our Sun would ...

The orbiter carries seven scientific instruments which will observe and study the solar corona (the outermost layer); the photosphere (the Sun's surface or the part we see from the Earth ...