Looking directly at the sun is a bad idea. That’s something that almost everyone learns from a very early age. Even when the sun is mostly blocked by an eclipse, you need to have special glasses on to ...

This video will make you think twice before you look at the sun. Astronomer Mark Thompson took a pig's eyeball and held it up to the lens of an 18 millimeter telescope pointed directly at the sun. The ...

The Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76mm H-Alpha Solar Telescope is introduced as an accessible instrument for amateur solar observation, featuring a 76mm f/8.3 objective and an integrated high-performance ...

"It's a landmark moment in solar science." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's ...