As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

Scientists have analyzed records from the 17th and 18th centuries and discovered very interesting information about what was happening to the Sun during that time. It turned out that during the ...

The celestial bodies near us, the sun and the moon and the planets ... you can also see Uranus and Neptune. Nothing special is happening on Jan. 25, but Venus and Saturn will be getting closer in ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.

The science behind what is happening on the sun’s surface is enormously complex; read more about it at NASA. In 1957, Eugene Parker was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago when he ...

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the east. What are they?