The latter originated from the sun’s chromosphere, the dark pink ring visible just after totality began and just before it ended, during totality on April 8. Other features to see in the video ...

At about 3,000 kilometers above the surface, we reach the chromosphere, the second layer of the sun. See that massive plume? That's called a solar prominence. These loops of gas are suspended by a ...

Similarly, the anomalous heating of the chromosphere continues to baffle ... As it stands, our understanding of how the sun's upper atmosphere is heated remains incomplete. This study charts ...

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

That core, where hydrogen is fused into helium, is encased by a radiative zone, then the convection zone, followed by the chromosphere and its corona. But the Sun doesn't really end there.