“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 ...
Unraveling Solar Symphony: Quasi-Biennial Oscillations Dance to Their Own Beat in Cycles 23 and 24
In the intricate dance of solar activity, a new study led by solar physicist Kiran Jain at the National Science ...
NSO: Magnetic fields in solar plage regions: insights from high-sensitivity spectropolarimetry
In the ever-evolving realm of solar physics, a quest to understand the enigmatic solar plages (pronounced /pleɪdʒ/) has led to ...
Statement on Maui Wildfires
AURA and the National Solar Observatory (NSO) are closely monitoring the harrowing, devastating wildfires which have severely impacted our local ...
NSO: The Sun’s Polar Magnetic Field will Soon Flip
The Sun is about to turn upside down – magnetically speaking, of course. In recent months, we’ve seen an uptick ...
