The image below is of the solar chromosphere and was taken in 1999 during a total solar eclipse. The red and pink hues seen around the edges are created by light emitted by hydrogen. The bright colors ...

Thanks to Sunrise III, researchers were able to track acoustic waves within the photosphere and chromosphere for the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that ...

The sun's lower atmosphere, the chromosphere, is usually drowned out by light from below it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

A scientific balloon observatory named Sunrise III recently observed the Sun for over six days. It captured detailed images ...

Using numerical simulations, we can calculate the TRACE response to a given acoustic energy flux at 400 km height and thus determine whether the waves observed carry enough power to heat the ...

Just above the Sun’s surface lie twisting tornadoes that accelerate plasma to speeds of over 62,000 mph (100,000 km/hr). New findings by Lockheed Martin scientists show these motions are not only more ...

Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC by ...