Sometimes, the Sun seems like a mystical glowing orb. Then it turns into a fire-breathing beast. The dragon was really unleashed when ESA’s Solar Orbiter recently caught our star belching hot plasma 2 ...

A large solar prominence was captured by an astrophotographer that showed the sun spewing a giant cloud of plasma into space, according to a report published Monday. The video, captured by ...

Talk about a sense of scale. This image of a solar prominence erupting from our sun isn't notable for just the arcing plume of plasma cutting a path through outer space. It's the whole scene that's ...

NASA has captured a huge solar prominence bursting from the surface of the Sun. The prominence was recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite on October 25. It stretched out roughly 80 ...

The sun is a literal hotbed of activity, giving off streams of plasma that can stretch out throughout the solar system and affect both people and satellites here on Earth in a phenomenon called space ...

Witness stunning plasma arcing off the surface of the Sun as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Learn more about its enormity! 2) Amazingly, there is no hint of this event in this SDO visible ...

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo ...

The Sun is the single hottest object in our solar system, with a core burring at an unimaginable 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million Fahrenheit.) Surface temperatures on the Sun are equally ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a solar prominence on Feb. 3. NASA NASA released a video Wednesday of a solar prominence captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The cloud of solar ...

A new video that cobbles together footage from a NASA solar observatory shows a brewing eruption on the sun that bears resemblance to the iconic extraterrestrial from director Ridley Scott's sci-fi ...

A giant filament has appeared on the surface of the sun — and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured images of the long, dark formation. Straightened out, the serpentine filament would measure ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro took this photos of the International Space Station crossing the sun's disk on June 14, 2017 from the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Mourão, Portugal. A blaze of solar ...