A series of short-exposure images are often used for rich, small-scale structure, high-quality, and high-resolution astronomical observations. Postprocessing of the closed-loop adaptive optics (AO) ...

After four centuries of advances, astronomers now capture the Sun’s swirling, dynamic features in stunning detail.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has taken an incredible high-resolution image of the sun, showing its full face and its outer atmosphere or corona. To give you an idea of just how big the ...