Scientists Spot Long-Hypothesized Twisting Magnetic Waves in the Sun’s Corona with NSF Inouye Solar Telescope, Hinting at a Hidden Engine Driving Key Solar Phenomena
For more than half a century, scientists have been puzzled by one of the Sun’s unsolved mysteries: why is its ...
The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Delivers Record-Breaking Images of Solar Flare, Coronal Loops
On August 8, 2024, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of ...
Small-Scale Solar Explosion Reveals Big Clues About Magnetic Reconnection
Using the world’s largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of ...
Magnetic Curtains on the Sun: NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Reveals Ultra-Fine Striations in Solar Surface
A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the Sun’s surface ...
“Raindrops in the Sun’s Corona”: New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of our Star’s Atmosphere
The Sun’s corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued scientists due to ...
Largest Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter Achieves First Light at the NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF ...
NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope’s Cryo-NIRSP instrument offers unprecedented look at Alfvén waves
Over the last decade, scientists have confirmed the presence of a an important type of magnetized waves called Alfvén waves ...
Harnessing AI for Space Weather Forecasting with NSF GONG Data
Solar filaments, dramatic thread-like structures visible in the Sun’s chromosphere, may hold the key to understanding one of the most ...
Groundbreaking Achievement: NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope Produces its First Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun’s Corona
Maui, Hawaii – The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, designed, ...
AURA Annual Meeting 2024
On a bright April morning in Tucson, Arizona, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy’s (AURA) Annual Meeting kicked ...
Unveiling the Mysteries of the Solar Chromosphere with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
The second layer of our Sun’s atmosphere, the chromosphere, is sandwiched between the Sun’s visible surface (or photosphere) below, and ...
AURA Appoints Christoph Keller as next National Solar Observatory Director
AURA is pleased to announce that Dr. Christoph Keller has been appointed as the next Director of the National Science ...
