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.

Each image is made of 25 photographs and the Sun has a diameter of nearly 8,000 pixels in each mosaic, revealing a wealth of insights such as details of its magnetism.

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 ...

The European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar Orbiter is tasked with take images of the Sun closer than any spacecraft has before it and it has delivered some gawkers this week. Technically ...

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 ...