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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

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 ...

Several decades ago, researchers began using helium-cooled electron microscopes to image protein specimens ... that the changes they made improved resolution at either 77 K or 13 K by ...

The result was a massive mosaic of 200 images, stitched together to create the widest high-resolution image of the Sun ever captured. Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this ...