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Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in pink.
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New Imaging Technique Makes the Sun Look Like a Swirling Pink Liquid

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun, in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star's megahot winds.
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A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Fly Through the Sun

By Frank Landymore

NASA's CURIE mission will try locate radio signals from the Sun that are originating somewhere within coronal mass ejections.
NASA

NASA Investigating Mysterious Radio Signals From the Sun

By Frank Landymore

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.
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The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

By Frank Landymore

As the Sun reaches solar maximum, NASA scientists hope to see just how much havoc a massive solar storm will wreak on the surface of Mars.
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NASA Watching as Sun Blasts Mars to See Effect on Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

The NASA Parker Solar probe took stunning images of the turbulent interior of the massive expulsion from the Sun.
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Video Shows NASA Probe Flying Directly Through a Coronal Mass Ejection Off the Sun

By Frank Landymore

By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.
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Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers are arguing in a new paper that disco balls should be placed in universities and scientific facilities.
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Astronomers Call for More Disco Balls at Scientific Facilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a ton of bizarrely-bright light shooting out of the Sun — and it's been happening for years right under our noses. 
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Scientists Say the Sun Has Been Shooting Out Super-Bright Light For Years Without Anyone Noticing

By Noor Al-Sibai

A ginormous, tornado of plasma has been spotted on the Sun's surface, violently raging within a powerful magnetic structure.
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We’re in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun

By Frank Landymore

The Sun apparently got a little goofy as scientists observed a small, strange chunk of it breaking off and doing a little jig. 
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Small Chunk Breaks Off the Sun, Does a Little Dance

By Noor Al-Sibai

A giant snake quickly darting across the Sun's surface was spotted by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, and it might have been a precursor to an even bigger event.
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Amazing Video Shows Huge “Snake” Slithering Across the Sun’s Surface

By Frank Landymore

No, you're not seeing things — that really is a picture of the sun giving a "smile," and there's a real scientific reason behind it, too.
NASA

NASA Captures the Sun at Perfect Moment So That It Has Goofy Grin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Massive spikes of radiation levels on Earth were once believed to be caused by solar flares, but a new study suggests that something else may be driver.
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Something Unknown Seems to Blast Earth With Radiation Every Thousand Years or So

By Frank Landymore

A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter
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A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect
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Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré