The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020 and has been monitoring ...

The coronal green line — the hottest part of the sun's inner corona — and a loop following a solar flare, in an image taken on May 23, 2025, by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3. (Image ...

By studying its polar extremes, scientists hope to gain new insights into the sun and how it behaves. And the best is yet to come — later this year, humans will get our first images of the sun ...