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See the sun revealed in stunning glory by Solar Orbiter pictures

The best pictures we have of the sun yet have been delivered thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft

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The sun's upper atmosphere, or corona, in ultraviolet light

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Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial solar eclipse

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Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out stunning patterns

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This illustration lays a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA?s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The complex overlay of lines can teach scientists about the ways the sun's magnetism changes in response to the constant movement on and inside the sun. CREDIT NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07315-1

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Source of the sun’s magnetic field may hide right under its surface

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the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern lights, putting on a show over Achmelvich beach, Sutherland, in the Highlands of Scotland, UK.

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How to see tonight's northern lights – the strongest in 20 years

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Mars is blasting plasma out of its atmosphere into space

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Kill the sun! How wild thought experiments drive scientific discovery

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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

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coronal mass ejection from sun

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Why we study the sun’s corona during a total solar eclipse

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How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries

Records of total solar eclipses go back thousands of years, and in all that time they have allowed scientists to uncover key information about not just the sun but the whole universe

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One of NASA’s WB-57F research jets

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The ambitious plans to study the sun during April's solar eclipse

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The sun producing solar flares

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Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than we thought

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The outer parts of the sun during a total solar eclipse

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6 things to look out for during the total solar eclipse

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The sun could contain a tiny black hole that formed in the big bang

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