The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

The US National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured a groundbreaking image of the Sun.

The NSSL, extending about 35,000 km beneath the Sun’s surface, is a region where rotational dynamics undergo dramatic ...

nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) in diameter. Although this inner core is white hot, the pressure is so high ...

A global team of solar physicists has uncovered vast plasma tides moving beneath the Sun’s surface within a zone known as the ...

Nevertheless, sunspots are "still hotter than any oven on Earth," he added.The apparent texture of the sun comes from the varying densities and temperatures within its surface, which has layers ...

The close-up reveals a cluster of continent-size dark sunspots near the center of the sun’s inner atmosphere ... which has layers similar to an onion. By “tuning” in to different wavelengths ...