Newly analyzed data from ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft offer the first high-resolution view of the entire solar disk ...

But it would be by far the most powerful telescope we'd ever built. This telescope would use the sun itself. To give some ...

Space.com, a media outlet that covers astronomy news, has explained the technology that takes the idea that the bigger the telescope, the better, and uses the sun as a giant natural telescope.

The flesh was literally cooked as if it was being held under a magnifying ... Mercury's transit through a telescope without a filter to block some of the sun's UV rays.

Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer to take the first close-up ...

CCOR-1 is one solution to that. The coronagraph is essentially a solar telescope that observes the corona, the wispy, outer part of the sun’s atmosphere. The corona is typically invisible from ...

This year, the James Webb Space Telescope celebrated its first full ... packed with about 50 young stars comparable in size to our sun or smaller (SN: 2/18/08). These infants were born when ...