Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

This lets him capture sun photography without his camera catching on fire. To make this picture happen, McCarthy captured over 300,000 images. But, he only used the best 150,000 images to make the ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...