The circle at bottom-left gives an indication of size New pictures of the Sun taken ... Orbiter makes the first of its very close encounters with the Sun (at a distance of 48 million km).

the corona. Each image is a mosaic of 25 images stitched together; Solar Orbiter was too close to the sun to get the entire star in one shot. It also took a long time to funnel the data back to ...

These fiery images are the clearest views we have ever had of the sun, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, is ...

Looking at the sun through a telescope can cause serious damage to your health and vision, so how exactly are we meant to get pictures of the Sun’s surface if we can’t even look at it?