For the first time, a giant helical structure spanning millions of kilometers has been captured on camera as it emerged from ...

The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

It is basically a coronagraph that blocks the Sun to observe its corona (outermost atmospheric solar layer) which is full of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA), in collaboration with NASA, has used data from the Solar Orbiter mission to convert solar flares into audible sound. By mapping solar flare data into blue circles ...

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There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they are going at night. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as ...

The European Space Agency (ESA), in collaboration with NASA, has used data from the Solar Orbiter mission to convert solar flares into audible sound. By mapping solar flare data into blue circles ...

There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they are going at night. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as ...