Drivers warned of increased risk of dazzling sun following 39% increase in collisions
A driving experience expert is warning motorists to take extra precautions this autumn following a reported 39 per cent increase in collisions due to drivers being dazzled by the sun.…
Gravity Assist: Our Sun, Our Life, with Vladimir Airapetian
How well do you know the Sun? It hasn’t always looked the way it does today. Billions of years ago, the Sun was fainter but also more active, throwing out…
Rocket-Borne Telescope Detects Super-Fine Strands on the Sun
New images from a NASA sounding rocket provide the highest-resolution views ever captured of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, revealing fine strands of million-degree solar material. The images show…
Solar Energy Tracker Powers Down After 17 Years
After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued and advanced the agency’s 40-year record of measuring solar irradiance…
Why the Sun Won’t Become a Black Hole
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a…