Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

"The sun's magnetic field is key to understanding the dynamic nature of our home star from the smallest to the largest scales," scientist Daniel Müller said.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released four new, stellar images of the sun, including the highest resolution views to date of its full, visible surface, called the photosphere. Each image ...

The European Space Agency released four stunning images last week that show the sun in all its fiery glory. The images, obtained in March 2023 by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, represent what the agency ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter ...