A detailed example of a light bridge crossing a sunspot’s umbra. In this picture, the presence of convection cells surrounding the sunspot is also evident. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the ...

Scientists recently captured a movie of the roiling surface of giant, aging star 180 light years away. A team of astrophysicists assembled a movie from a month’s worth of data, which showed the ...

Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is giving us a detailed look at sunspots and convection cells. By Laura Baisas Published May 22, 2023 1:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

On Pluto, icebergs floating in a sea of nitrogen ice are key to a possible explanation of the quilted appearance of the Sputnik Planum region of the dwarf planet’s surface. Data reported by NASA’s New ...

A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School has designed a convection-enhanced macroencapsulation device (ceMED) ...

Astronomers have seen bubbles on the surface of red giant star R Doradus for the first time. This is the first time scientists have observed such incredible details on the surface of a star that is ...