A viral photo shows a commercial jet transiting the Sun alongside glowing solar prominences captured over six days.

Solar prominences, huge arcs of plasma hovering above the Sun, are getting fresh attention from scientists studying space weather. New research shows how these structures form, evolve, and sometimes ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The new computer simulations are based on a magnetic field structure that is often associated with prominences: the magnetic field lines in the corona form a double arc with a small dip in the middle.

At more than one million degrees, the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, is incredibly hot. However, not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of significantly cooler solar plasma - about 10,000 ...