The sun’s corona is a site of scientific intrigue for its erratic eruptions and massive, stringy loops of plasma called prominences. But we can only see this outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

Scientists captured the highest-resolution images of the sun’s corona to date. The plasma is artificially colorized in the image, with darker pink colors corresponding to brighter light. Schmidt et al ...