Solar rotation, a fundamental characteristic of the sun, is second in importance only to the Schwabe cycle, an approximately 11-year cycle. The energy and matter of the solar atmosphere originate from ...

A newly discovered turning point in the Sun’s 11-year cycle could allow scientists to predict future solar activity years ...

After four decades of searching, solar scientists have at long last found evidence of a type of seismic wave in our Sun. Thanks to ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric ...

The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists describe as solar rotation comes from watching patterns move across a glowing, ...

The solar transition region, located between the chromosphere and corona, plays an important role in the formation of solar wind and coronal heating mechanism. The solar transition region is not a ...

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or ...

Strong magnetic fields keep the equator spinning faster than the poles and prevent a rotation flip, even as stars slow down with age Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most ...

To improve understanding of variation of Earth's rotation in the 4th--7th centuries CE, a research team analyzed Byzantine records from this period to identify total solar eclipses around the Eastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1612, Galileo Galilei looked at the sun through a telescope, drew what he saw, and observed that sunspots — dark areas near the ...