NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a magnetic filament erupting on the Sun. The filament was "connected to sunspot AR3229" triggered a long duration M3-class flare and resulting coronal mass ...

More than half of the matter in our universe has so far remained hidden from us. However, astrophysicists had a hunch where it might be: In so-called filaments, unfathomably large thread-like ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --Astronomers have discovered a massive intergalactic gas filament measuring at least 50 million light years in length -- the longest yet to be found. Intergalactic filaments are long ...

This colorful composite, captured by the now-defunct Spitzer Space Telescope, shows dark, smoky filaments snaking across a portion of the Nessie Nebula. In the center bottom of the image, a giant tear ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The map of our universe looks astonishingly like a road map of the United States. Big, bustling ...

Researchers led by Prof. Shen Yuandeng and his student Tan Song from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered new form of oscillation in a single filament ...

An X1.9 solar flare erupted from the Sun on 1 December. The associated coronal mass ejection will not strike the Earth.

The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking out from the side of the sun.

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The Milky Way has a “feather” in its cap. A long, thin filament of cold, dense gas extends jauntily from the galactic center, connecting two of the galaxy’s spiral arms, astronomers report November 11 ...

UC Santa Cruz astronomers who captured the first image of a filament of the “cosmic web” thought to connect galaxies throughout the universe have been recognized by the editors of Physics World for ...