The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal Lettersexplores the fine-scale structure of the Sun’s surface, ...

The brightness and darkness of the stripes is controlled by the strength of the magnetic field, and very slight variations in ...

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

They're magnetic stripes, similar to the ones lining the ocean floor at mid-ocean ridges. David Bridges, a geophysicist from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his colleagues ...

The Sun’s magnetic field is stronger than Earth’s own, and in certain variable regions it can be thousands of times stronger.

"These magnetic stripes are evidence of pole reversals ... Laura is the archaeology and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including paleontology.

Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole ... solar radiation and keeps solar winds from stripping away Earth’s atmosphere. Because the convective ...