NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying ...

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).

The first photos of the sun were taken in the first half of the 19th century and they paved the way for many important solar observations in the future.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole.

Taken by a Nasa satellite, the image shows the bottom of the sun blacked out. It has an uneven shape due to the different densities of Earth's atmosphere.

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ultra-powerful imaging tool. Here’s what you can see.

This “solargraph” (see image, right) shows the path taken by the sun as it travelled across the sky above the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, UK, between 19 December 2007 and 21 June ...

" The images were captured on March 7 at a distance of 46.6 million miles, which is about half of the distance between Earth's and its average orbit around the Sun.