Inside the Sun’s Magnetic Inferno: A High-Res Journey Through Solar Chaos

Inside the Sun’s Magnetic Inferno: A High-Res Journey Through Solar Chaos

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun’s blazing outer atmosphere. This isn’t just a pretty picture; it’s a 200-frame composite revealing swirling loops of solar activity, dramatic magnetic filaments, and the Sun’s complex, dynamic behavior. Captured using a precision 5×5 grid while cruising 77 million km away, [...]

Widest high-resolution photo of the Sun ever captured

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed from Venus.

Can I offer you a nice image of the Sun in these trying times?

The joint ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter mission has delivered a stunning new image of the Sun and its corona. The sun-observing satellite originally launched in 2020, and besides making the Sun look cool, the data it's captured has impacted things like our understanding of solar wind. Today's photo shows off the spun-sugar-like particles caught in the magnetic field of the Sun's atmosphere, the dark "filaments" of cooler material weaving their way …

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took unique high-resolution pictures of the SunThe Solar Orbiter spacecraft took detailed pictures of the Sun from a distance of 77 million km. The mission, launched in 2020, aims to study of the magnetic activity of the Sun.

From 200 individual images of the Solar Orbiter, ESA has assembled the largest image of our Sun so far. It shows the star in ultraviolet light.