Eight students from a solar physics research group led by Juie Shetye, New Mexico State University astronomy assistant ...

“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

At its current solar maximum, our Sun has been pretty busy of late, flinging parts of itself at Earth and raising concerns about effects on satellites and power grids while also gracing us with ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a vision for solar and space physics to advance understanding of physics in space; comprehend the ...

SAN ANTONIO — January 15, 2025 —Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Lisa Upton has received the 2025 Karen Harvey Prize from the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division, which recognizes ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.

The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument. The world's largest solar telescope, ...

Innovation flourishes not because people collaborate more broadly but because the right people fall into productive orbit ...

Solar physics investigates the complex processes occurring in our Sun – the nearest star and a prototypical example of stellar activity. Central to the discipline is an understanding of the Sun’s ...

The use of better-quality data can improve the business case for a number of solar projects. Image: Photon Group. The integrity of a PV project largely depends on the quality of the solar, ...

First Light! The spectro-polarimeter of the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii looks at the Sun for the first time. The instrument was developed in Germany A narrow-band image of the Sun at a ...