If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have finally captured the first images of the Sun’s chromosphere.

But we'll need something even better as we get closer. At about 3,000 kilometers above the surface, we reach the chromosphere, the second layer of the sun. See that massive plume? That's called a ...

I use state-of-the-art modeling codes combined with analysis of data from ground and space-based observatories (such as Hubble, IRIS, and the APO ARC 3.5m) to understand how the lower, dense stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic ...

This is a composite of two images taken seconds apart: a 1/15th second exposure for the corona and a 1/1000 sec exposure for the prominences and chromosphere. It’s thought that the Sun will ...

Crookes recognized as identical w;th the line D3 which Prof. Lockyer had observed in 1868 in the spectrum of the solar chromosphere, and which he attributed to an element not yet known on the ...

India is making its navigation system, NaVIC, accessible to civilians via mobile phones by 2025. The Indian Space Research ...

Isro says these images of the Sun sent by Aditya-L1 provide insights into the Sun's photosphere and chromosphere Scientists say Aditya can help better understand, and even give a forewarning ...

Both of these instruments capture a full EUV spectrum every 10 seconds. To study the corona and chromosphere of the Sun, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) uses four telescopes to create full ...

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 ...

India will launch the European Union's Proba-3 spacecraft from Sriharikota in December, marking another milestone in their ...