Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter ...

Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai'i is the world's largest solar telescope and has already taken some of the highest-resolution images of the Sun. One of its instruments has just taken its first ...

Scientists hope that the craft will also be able to help answer some big questions, including how are solar winds formed and ...

creating the widest resolution image of our star. Snapped on March 9, the orbiter was 77 million kilometers (48 million miles) from the Sun. It snapped 200 individual images that were put together ...

The world’s most advanced solar telescope just unlocked a new level of discovery with the first light from its Visible ...

On 9 March 2025, it captured its most detailed image so far. The spacecraft used its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager to photograph the Sun over four and a half hours. It took 200 frames from 48 million ...

The German institute for solar physics develops, builds and operates unique high-tech research instruments for the detailed study of the sun. Thanks to these instruments, it has become possible to ...