The sun is Earth's closest star, yet its beauty is too intense to appreciate with the naked eye. Here are some of the most stunning solar images that our satellites and telescopes have captured.

Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

The images were taken less than 74 million kilometers (46 million miles) away from the Sun on March 22, 2023. The Sun is big so the instruments have to take multiple images that were then stitched ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released four new, stellar images of the sun, including the highest resolution views to date of its full, visible surface, called the photosphere.

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted with a flourish. The bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the Sun and an eruption of solar material shooting ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the European Space ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

The never-seen-before images of the Sun, Andromeda galaxy, and nebulae using specialised telescopes that capture infrared light reveal the dynamic and intricate structures of stellar universe.

for which 35 teams of people across the path of totality from Texas through Maine captured images of the sun’s outer atmosphere, its corona, during the darkness of totality when the moon blocked ...