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 wind. Scientists have now confirmed that these fleeting bursts of energy ...

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy ... to the sun. During these passes, the probe managed to get ...

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 ...