The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions, and large ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and largely ...

Impressive, sharp images of the Sun can be produced with an advanced adaptive optical (AO) system that will give new life to existing telescopes and opens the way for a generation of large-aperture ...

A groundbreaking new optical device, developed at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) to correct images of the Sun distorted by multiple layers of atmospheric turbulence, is providing scientists ...

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures. Reading time 2 minutes The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—is the piping ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun's corona, revealing clearest images to date. (Nanowerk News) The Sun’s corona—the outermost layer of its ...