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The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called ...

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European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter was launched in 2020 It studies solar activity cycle, magnetic field, solar wind The European Space Agency on Wednesday released images taken in March using ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That is ...

'It's not that we haven't seen them before. It's that we haven't seen as many.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Three months ago, ...

NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter is one of seven currently circling the red planet (three of them belonging to NASA), capturing imagery and performing tasks from way up to help scientists learn more about ...