As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that were reddish, pink and orange in hue — along the periphery of the moon ...

NASA has captured a huge solar prominence bursting from the surface of the Sun. The prominence was recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite on October 25. It stretched out roughly 80 ...

A NOAA GOES satellite's SUVI instrument captured a pair of solar prominences. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NOAA/SUVI ...

A spectacular solar feature has been caught in action by the Solar Orbiter mission. On March 17, 2025, the spacecraft recorded a striking solar prominence as it hovered over the Sun’s limb. The ...

Did you see those red blotchy areas around the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse? Those are called solar prominences. Though they look like they could be made of fire, they are actually ...

Cloud spotting seems to be growing in popularity as a hobby here on Earth. Now scientists studying the solar atmosphere are building their own collection of fascinating moving features that they’ve ...

Just like clouds on a calm day, solar prominences appear almost motionless. Attempt to draw them, however, and you’ll discover that both evolve at such a rate that you struggle to keep up. But with a ...

At first glance, this incredible close-up of roiling solar prominences on the Sun’s surface looks like footage captured by a Sun-observing spacecraft. In fact, they were shot from right here on Earth.

The sun is a literal hotbed of activity, giving off streams of plasma that can stretch out throughout the solar system and affect both people and satellites here on Earth in a phenomenon called space ...