ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest Pictures …
Jul 16, 2020 · The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun.
The sun as you've never seen it: European probe snaps closest …
Mar 24, 2022 · The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest images of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.
Solar Orbiter: Closest ever pictures taken of the Sun - BBC
Jul 16, 2020 · New pictures of the Sun taken just 77 million km (48 million miles) from its surface are the closest ever acquired by cameras. They come from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO)...
This is the clearest and closest picture of the Sun ever taken
Nov 21, 2024 · These detailed views show the Sun's surface as a sea of glowing, hot plasma constantly in motion, with temperatures ranging from 4500 to 6000°C. One of the most striking features in the images are sunspots, which appear as …
See Our Sun’s Surface in Unprecedented Detail | Smithsonian
Jul 22, 2020 · NASA and the European Space Agency captured the images—the closest ever taken of the sun—in May and June, according to a statement. “These unprecedented pictures of the Sun are the...
The Sun Gets Its Close-up: Images from New Solar Telescope
May 24, 2023 · The National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has returned some stunning close-up images of the Sun, including sunspots, fibriles, granules, and all sorts of other solar textures.
Closest Ever Images of the Sun Revealed by NASA and ESA
Jul 16, 2020 · These miniature solar flares could shed light on one of the sun's most enduring unexplained phenomena—why the sun's outermost atmosphere is hotter than its surface.
These are the closest images of the sun ever taken
Jul 16, 2020 · The new images show a landscape of constant stormy activity emanating from the sun’s corona (atmosphere), revealing features that are just 250 to 310 miles across.
Sun - NASA
Feb 25, 2025 · A solar flare bursts off the left limb of the sun in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory... Caption: This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on... X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar...
What New Images Reveal about the Sun | Discovery
Jun 9, 2022 · In the image, you can see how violent and raucous the Sun can really be. At roughly the 2 o’clock position you can spot a dark filament. This is what’s called a prominence, which is an extension of the Sun that will likely completely erupt from the surface any day now.