U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detailed an inverse relationship between the brightness of the solar corona and the velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal on July 3.

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists.

A groundbreaking new mission may soon allow scientists to study the sun’s corona with unprecedented clarity. The Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (MESOM), a proposal from a group of researchers from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London (UCL) and Aberystwyth University,