Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the summit of Haleakalā on the island of Maui, Hawaii, captured the sharpest-ever images ...

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

The National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the telescope, said that the image was taken during technical testing and that the VTF is not yet even fully operational. But the fact that the ...

An incredibly sharp photo of the Sun has revealed, for the first time, the magnetic "striae" hidden on the solar surface. O ...

Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology ...

Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

At around the size of a small garage, the 5.6 ton instrument occupies two floors at the National Solar Observatory. The VTF was developed and constructed at Germany’s Institute for Solar Physics ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...