Why will our Sun expel its outer layers as it dies? Daniel StanyerAugusta, Kansas First, let's discriminate between expansion and expulsion. Expansion happens because the thermal pressure from the ...

Each colour represents a different element at a layer on the Sun. From Left to right: Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Neon and Magnesium© ESA ...

The solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun scientists find, solving a 400-year-old solar mystery and providing a weird link to black holes.

Hinode, Japanese for ‘sunrise’, was launched on 23 September 2006 to study the sun’s magnetic field and how its explosive energy propagates through the different layers of the solar atmosphere.

This confirmed that the energy released by the solar flare propagated through the different layers of the sun's atmosphere, according to a paper describing the observations, which was published ...