It’s that time of the year again when people rush to the beach or to pools to take a dip into the water to relax and beat the summer heat. It’s the season that everyone looks forward to during...
It’s that time of the year again when people rush to the beach or to pools to take a dip into the water to relax and beat the summer heat. It’s the season that everyone looks forward to during...
Our Sun is far more complex and dynamic than meets the eye. Many missions have been studying the sun for decades, but they focus mainly on its equatorial regions which has left sun's poles relatively...
Researchers believe they have finally found a star identical to our sun. The newfound object, dubbed HD186302, is a G3-type main sequence star that is similar to our sun in terms of both age and...
The surface of the sun is blistering hot at around 6000°C, but its corona or outermost layer is even hotter. The temperature of sun’s corona can be as high as 1 million degrees, which is more...
The surface of the sun is blistering hot at around 6000°C, but its corona or outermost layer is even hotter. The temperature of sun’s corona can be as high as 1 million degrees, which is more...
A group of astronomers have probed more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way in a quest to find sun’s missing siblings. They believe that ‘DNA’ of these stellar structures could help them identify the...
A group of astronomers has probed more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way in a quest to find sun’s missing siblings. They believe that ‘DNA’ of these stellar structures could help them identify the...
Researchers have found evidence showing that Sun’s core is rotating four times faster than its surface. The findings come as a surprise, contrary to expectations, the rotational speed of solar core...
A giant sunspot, larger than Earth, has been captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.The sunspot was detected across the face as the Sun rotated and it seems to be growing rapidly. ...