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The Inouye Solar Telescope's VTF achieves a milestone with its first images, revealing intricate sunspot structures at an ...

See amazing new sun photos from the world's largest solar telescope — The largest solar telescope on Earth snaps the most detailed image of a sunspot we've ever seen ...

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected incredibly detailed images of the sun from its perch on the Haleakalā ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields that prevent hot plasma from rising from within the sun. “VTF enables images of unprecedented quality and thus heralds a new era in ground-based ...

VTF's first image shows a major clump of sunspots, dark blobs on the ... Solar Observatory optical engineer Stacey Sueoka. "I'm excited to see what's possible as we complete the system." ...

Their goal is to image the solar corona — the Sun’s outer atmosphere — and track how it transitions into the solar wind, the continuous stream of charged particles that shapes our solar system. “We ...

The remarkable images — taken from Quebec, Canada, during the March 29, 2025, partial solar eclipse — reveal the sun's outer atmosphere — a feature typically visible only during the brief ...

It is designed to image the sun "with the highest possible spatial, temporal and spectral resolution", according to the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS). The Göttingen-based ...

ESA has compiled the largest image of our sun to date from 200 individual images taken by the Solar Orbiter. It shows the star in ultraviolet light. Europe's space probe for exploring the sun has ...