Scientists used image processing on high-resolution images of the Sun to reveal distinct “plumelets” within structures on the Sun called solar plumes. The full-disk Sun and the left side of the inset image were captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light and processed to […]
ANIMATION Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity assist flybys of Venuson December 27, to start bringing it closer to the Sun and tilting its orbit in order to observe our star from different perspectives. Just as the majority of us will remain safely at home under […]
ANIMATION Solar Orbiter’s latest results show that the mission is making the first direct connections between events at the solar surface and what’s happening in interplanetary space around the spacecraft. It is also giving us new insights into solar ‘campfires’, space weather, and disintegrating comets. “I could not be more […]
ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter reached its first perihelion, the point in its orbit closest to the star, on June 15, 2020, getting as close as 77 million kilometers to the star’s surface. Credit: ESA/Medialab ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments […]
A view of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on April 23, 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland) ESA’s Solar Orbiter will cross through the tails of Comet ATLAS during the next few days. Although the recently launched spacecraft […]