Astronomers using the Inouye Solar Telescope have captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare, revealing coronal loops as thin as 21 km wide. These threadlike plasma structures, imaged during ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal loops above an active region on the sun in mid-January 2012. The image was taken in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet ...

The NSF inouye solar telescope observes its first x-class solar flare and reveals the smallest coronal loops ever imaged MAUI, HI - AUGUST 25, 2025 — The highest-resolution images of a solar flare ...

"It's a landmark moment in solar science." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured outbursts, jets and rivers of plasma beneath the arch of a glowing coronal loop. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Two University of Iowa researchers have made the first direct radio image of a stellar coronal loop at a star, other than the Sun, thereby providing scientists with information that may lead to a ...

A video of a coronal loop on the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, showing the ʻcoronal rainʻ phenomenon. An image of the Earth is included to provide a scale for the loop, which is more than ...