For the first time ever, clear images of the sun's south pole have been captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. They offer fresh insights into the sun's behavior, its magnetic field and how it ...

NASA has just released the closest-ever images of the sun, captured by its Parker Solar Probe on its record-breaking flyby into the outermost layer of the star’s atmosphere late last year. The ...

Jaw-dropping new images are the closest ever taken to the Sun. The latest close-ups, unveiled Thursday (10 July), were captured just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. They reveal details ...

NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying ...

ESA has now released the first pictures of the sun’s south pole, taken between March, when the spacecraft was orbiting at an angle 15 degrees below the ecliptic plane, and today, when it reached ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020 and has been monitoring ...

So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have photographed one of the sun’s elusive poles. The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter.

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole reveal a messy jumble of magnetic activity in a never-before-seen region of our nearest star. The images, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and ...

Solar Orbiter captures images of the sun's pole for the first time The pole's magnetic field is all messed up right now. Mariella Moon Contributing Reporter Follow Thu, June 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM PDT ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to the European Space Agency s Solar Orbiter and its tilted orbit ...

The Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever views of the sun's south pole. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), via ESA Standard Licence Though humans have been observing ...