STEREO snapped a 3D image of the full disc of the Sun, which shows three holes in its outer atmosphere, or corona. The holes appear dark in part because they contain fewer particles that emit light ...

NASA intends to take an unprecedented 3D observation of the sun this month. In doing so, the agency hopes to understand why its outer atmosphere — the corona — is hotter than its surface, how does the ...

The PlayStation logo that appears in the iconic PS1 boot sequence is actually a 3D model, not a static 3D image like so many of us thought. It’s not something an average user pays attention to ...

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) billowing out from the Sun. Images from the Polarimeter to Unify the ...

NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will make global, 3D observations of the inner solar system and the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, to learn how its ...

Johnston shared the image with Digital Camera World, and they’re so highly detailed that they almost look computer generated. Mind you, capturing images of the Sun can be difficult business.

For the first time ever, clear images of the sun's south pole have been captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. They offer fresh insights into the sun's behavior, its magnetic field and how it ...

An i mage shared to Facebook in March 2025 claiming to show "the most clearest picture of the sun ... Taken by NASA" garnered more than 266,000 reactions on Facebook at the time of this writing ...

The images that the National Science Foundation shared this week were taken back in June. Now, we can finally look at the part of the atmosphere resting just above the Sun’s surface , which was ...

The Sun may have looked similar when it was young, but it's now a 4.6-billion-year-old star in the middle of its life cycle. Hubble was launched in 1990 and quickly became an indispensable tool ...

A Reddit user has captivated thousands of people with a crystal-clear image of the sun, produced using a specially-designed telescope. User ajamesmccarthy uploaded the image on Tuesday. Described ...

The redesigned Sun logo coincides with the opening of Hockney’s biggest-ever exhibition at Tate Britain (9 Feb). Visitors will see more than 250 artworks, from his early ‘pop art’ pictures of young ...