After four centuries of advances, astronomers now capture the Sun’s swirling, dynamic features in stunning detail.

A series of short-exposure images are often used for rich, small-scale structure, high-quality, and high-resolution astronomical observations. Postprocessing of the closed-loop adaptive optics (AO) ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has taken an incredible high-resolution image of the sun, showing its full face and its outer atmosphere or corona. To give you an idea of just how big the ...