"A lava lamp as wide as, and even deeper than, the Hudson Bay." In the image at the top of the page, an X-shaped feature is thought to be a spot where four of these convection cells once met ...

GREGOR, a telescope operated by a team of German scientists at the Teide Observatory in Spain, has obtained new high-resolution images of the intricate structure of the sun — the best ever ...

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA ...

By taking advantage of that distance, the researchers were able to develop the high-resolution image with an angular resolution (the distance between parts of an image that allows for ...