A massive coronal hole on the Sun is sending solar wind toward Earth, increasing aurora visibility in higher latitudes.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'Blue Lurker' Among Stars Jan. 13, 2025 — The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a ...

Tiny high-speed jets in the Sun’s coronal holes may explain how the solar wind is generated. Detected by Solar Orbiter, these findings could reshape our understanding of solar activity.

NASA is launching a ... weighing 64kg to study how the Sun’s atmosphere creates solar wind in more detail than ever before. Solar wind and events such as coronal mass ejections can have space ...

It is not known, for example, why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, is considerably hotter than its surface. Nasa also wants to find out exactly how solar wind forms, and why it ...