The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument.

After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.

Thanks to Inouye, as well as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe – the fastest human-made object in space – and the incredible European ...

The sun might be responsible for light and life on Earth, but it can also be terrifying. The first image from the brand new Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) instrument at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

In a groundbreaking achievement for solar astronomy, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar ...

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University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

The Inouye Solar Telescope's VTF achieves a milestone with its first images, revealing intricate sunspot structures at an ...

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Santa Cruz County students are getting first dibs on a new nationwide astronomy program for rural K-12 schools that the ...