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Jul 16, 2020 · The Solar and Heliospheric Imager, or SoloHI, led by Russell Howard of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., revealed the so-called zodiacal light, light from the Sun reflecting off of interplanetary dust – a light so faint that the bright face of the Sun normally obscures it.
Mar 24, 2022 · The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest image of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.
May 2, 2022 · The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the highest resolution photo ever taken of the Sun that includes its full disc, outer atmosphere, and corona that has ever been captured.
May 23, 2023 · The world's largest solar telescope has captured the sun's fine features in remarkable detail, including rare glimpses of dying sunspots.
Aug 12, 2018 · On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona – the Sun’s upper atmosphere – in 2021.
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Mar 11, 2021 · Gallery of NASA Sun Images. This image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 20, 2013 shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the Sun. Credit: NASA/SDO. Check out some pictures of our Sun in the NASA Solar System Exploration Sun gallery.
