For much of the past decade, Andrew McCarthy has been exploring the universe—albeit from his backyard in Arizona. Using telescopes with specialized filters, planetary cameras, and astro-specific ...

Good day, sunshine! Cameras at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a cheerful-looking image of the sun last week, with eyes and a grinning mouth suggested by the shapes of dark patches known as ...

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The latest Readers Photo Challenge assignment tasked participants with taking pictures of the sun and/or sunshine. Some people took photos that included the sun itself while others took the effects of ...

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