This image was taken by the Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) and shows clearly the arch-like hot loops of plasma that reach up into…
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The outer atmosphere of the Sun, known as the corona, can be seen stretching off into space in this image from Solar Orbiter’s Metis instrument.…
[embedded content]Credit: ESA & NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that…
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly…
The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7,…
Animation of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter making a close pass of the Sun. Credit: ESA/Medialab The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Solar Orbiter and SOHO’s view of a giant eruption – close up. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI and SOHO/LASCO teams, ESA & NASA The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958,…
A composite of Comet Leonard images captured December 15-16, 2021, in ultraviolet light by the Metis instrument onboard the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The comet…
Frame from a movie captured by the SoloHI instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft of Comet Leonard on December 17-18, 2021. Credit: ESA/NASA/NRL/SoloHI Comet…
An image of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. This particular image was taken…
Artist’s impression of Solar Orbiter making a flyby at Earth. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during…
Artist impression of Solar Orbiter’s Earth flyby through the two clouds of space debris in Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA Solar Orbiter…
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its second flyby of Venus on 19 August 2021, coming within 552 km of the planet at 13:51:54 UTC for…
[embedded content]Combining imagery from three of Solar Orbiter’s remote sensing instruments – the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), the Metis coronagraph, and Solar Orbiter’s Heliospheric Imager…
November 18, 2020 Looking Around the Neighborhood Though they focus on the star at the center of our solar system, some Sun-watching spacecraft recently captured…
Scientists used image processing on high-resolution images of the Sun to reveal distinct “plumelets” within structures on the Sun called solar plumes. The full-disk Sun…
Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity assist flybys of Venus on December 27, to start bringing it closer to the…
Solar Orbiter’s latest results show that the mission is making the first direct connections between events at the solar surface and what’s happening in interplanetary…
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft took this image on May 30, 2020. It shows the Sun’s appearance at a wavelength…