The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

A breakthrough in solar imaging: the new Cona adaptive optics system enables high-resolution observations of the Sun’s corona ...

New technology called the coronal adaptive optics system has captured the most detailed view of the Sun's outer atmosphere.

A rather new adaptive optics system dubbed Cona has just opened a new window into the mysterious world of the Sun's corona, ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be ...

Atmospheric optics is a branch of optics and photonics that studies how light behaves in the Earth’s atmosphere. This can include both understanding naturally occurring effects involving ...

The Sun's poles—which have never been seen before—have been revealed for the first time by what experts are calling a "virtual observatory." Observations of the sun are typically limited to ...

Amazed skiers thought they discovered a portal to another dimension when they saw a flame-shaped atmospheric phenomenon known as a "subsun" or "sun candle" this week at SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser in ...

Spaceweather.com referred to the sundogs Skillern spotted as "sub-sundogs" due to their position below the Sun. "The key to this atmospheric optics phenomenon is the subsun—a dazzling reflection ...

according to science site Atmospheric Optics. This causes light to ring the sun at a distance of 22degrees as sun-haloes. When the light is concentrated as spots next to the sun. also separated by ...

"When it comes to atmospheric optics, one of the most captivating and awe-inspiring phenomena is the circumzenithal arc," reads the Atmospheric Optics website. "Imagine a rainbow that has escaped ...