The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere ...

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

The National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the telescope, said that the image was taken during technical testing and that the VTF is not yet even fully operational. But the fact that the ...

ISFIYA — A dozen 11th-grade physics students stood inside Solaris – the first national solar observatory in Israel – and watched a solar flare occurring 150 million kilometers (93 million ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

At around the size of a small garage, the 5.6 ton instrument occupies two floors at the National Solar Observatory. The VTF was developed and constructed at Germany’s Institute for Solar Physics ...

These images are "something no other instrument in the telescope can achieve in the same way," said National Solar Observatory optical engineer Stacey Sueoka. "I'm excited to see what's possible ...