When sunlight hits clouds or other atmospheric particles, it scatters and becomes diffuse light. Unlike direct sunlight, ...

Imagine you’re enjoying a cloudy morning, and suddenly the sun bursts through, flooding your world with brilliant light. For ...

In March 2022, the craft imaged the region inside a coronal hole near the Sun’s south pole in ultraviolet light. Within the hole, researchers discovered numerous short-lived jets, ...

The sun emits light across all the visible colors in the electromagnetic spectrum fairly evenly. When these come together united in sunlight the sun appears white. This is useful because if this ...

Sun dog seen in Colorado Springs. These same ice crystals that made our sun dogs can also create light pillars at night. Like sun dogs, light will refract off of these ice crystals and create this ...

Girl, 7, 'allergic' to light must hide from the sun, cover every inch of skin. After mystery symptoms as a baby, she was diagnosed with a rare disorder that forces her to shun all UV light.