As the electrons flow through the cell, they generate electricity. On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

SOHO images show the comet swooping across ... a stream of particles and energy constantly flowing off the sun,” NASA said. “Heliophysicists can study the reaction of the tails to better ...

Less widely noticed was the emergence of a grainy series of satellite images taken ... that powers the sun. Laser-ignited fusion is critical to simulating nuclear weapons explosions, but could also be ...