The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

Though perhaps not as surprising as DKIST’s, they are nonetheless the closest images of the sun ever taken, from just over 47 million miles away (about half the distance from Earth to the sun).

They usually have image fields of around 75,000 kilometers (47,000 miles) in diameter, while VTT's is 200,000 kilometers (125,000 miles), so that the large-scale structures in the active Sun and ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas ...

About half of Sun-like stars could host rocky, potentially habitable planets. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 11 / 201106082746.htm ...

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A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) billowing out from the Sun. Images from the Polarimeter to Unify the ...

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has spent 22 years recording Earth's sun and has given us a full picture of the solar cycle.

Stunning new sun images show our star's popcorn-like magnetic field structure. News. By Meghan Bartels published 4 September 2020 ... and in her free time she enjoys reading and visiting museums.

An i mage shared to Facebook in March 2025 claiming to show "the most clearest picture of the sun ... Taken by NASA" garnered more than 266,000 reactions on Facebook at the time of this writing ...

On July 16th, the European Space Agency and NASA unveiled the closest images of the Sun ever taken, captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft that launched in February 2020. The pictures are ...

The adorable image of the sun was certainly a treat, but it came with tricks as well. The coronal hole trio prompted a minor geomagnetic storm watch on Saturday, with NOAA's Space Weather ...