High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish. That’s what scientists have gleaned from the first verified maps of the shifting boundary between the sun and the rest of the solar system. “The ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun, about 16.9 ...

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