The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution views of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

Built by Airbus in the UK, Solar Orbiter was developed as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The probe launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 ...

The video, which was released March 26 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is sped-up footage originally taken over an eight-hour period on Oct. 12, 2022, by ESA's Solar Orbiter.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures it took last year were from less than 46 million miles away.

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB) The science team used three instruments aboard Solar Orbiter to capture images of the Sun between March 16 and 17.

ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB) Solar Orbiter was launched in 2020, and since then has made a number of close approaches to the sun.

The ESA says sunspots are colder than their surroundings, and therefore give off less light, hence the dark coloring. All of the images were taken while the Solar Orbiter was less than 74 million ...

The imagery was taken by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, which began its trek to view the sun's polar regions in 2020.

This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission broke free of this ‘standard’ viewpoint by tilting its orbit to 17° – out of the ecliptic plane where the planets and all other Sun-watching ...

Solar Orbiter is currently about 75 million miles (120 million km) from the sun, just beyond the orbit of Venus, according to a spacecraft tracker run by ESA. The spacecraft, in collaboration with ...