The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

Usually, spacecraft observe the Sun around its equator because they all orbit in the flat ecliptic plane. Now, Solar Orbiter’s tilted path lets it look at the South Pole from 15 and 17 degrees ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.

Last week saw scientists celebrating a breakthrough in bowel cancer prevention. The study, by the University of Edinburgh and ...

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft flew over the Sun’s south pole in March, using the gravitational pull of Venus. VIDEO: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

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