New image offers window into what our Sun and Solar System looked like in ... helps us focus on the scene in front of us. The dark clouds of L1527 are only visible in the infrared, and NIRCam ...

The image is ... area of the sun’s corona – the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere – that is less dense and cooler than its surrounding area, resulting in a dark-colored gap in imaging ...

While we explore the far reaches of the universe about ten billion light-years from Earth, our solar neighborhood still holds surprises. An international team, including researchers from the ...

show the moment the CME was launched from the sun's surface, appearing as a brief dark cloud towards the end of the clip at around 11:30 UT. A NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory image shows Sunday's ...

Cometary globules are a hard-to-detect subclass of so-called Bok globules, which are isolated and dense clouds ... Related: Dark Energy Camera captures record-breaking image of a dead star's ...

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy–fabricated Dark Energy Camera—one of the ...

Stock image of a very dark cloud over a city. Istanbul was thrust into darkness on Tuesday as a heavy cloud rolled over the city, nearly blocking out the sun entirely for around 5 minutes.

Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion ... to take the first definitive images of a dark spot on Uranus.

This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” According to researchers, the cloud spans about 40 moon-widths across the sky and has a mass about 3,400 times of the sun. It’s located along the edge of ...

Previously, the clouds were known to appear at higher latitudes near the north and south poles. But in recent years satellite images ... the sun’s lingering light when the lower sky is dark ...

The image above was taken as part of the commissioning process. The dark, circular shadow is from the "occulter." The occulter is needed to prevent the sun's light from overwhelming the images ...