The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted orbit.

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During the course of a 13-second exposure, the International Space Station makes a trail of light in the sky as the station ...

That line is called the ecliptic, and it looks similar to the arc-like path the Sun charts each day in the sky. But why do planets seem to follow the path of the Sun's movement?

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane.

Why? Because Earth, like all the planets in our solar system, orbits the sun along a line across a flat, disc-shaped plane in the sky known as the ecliptic. That means all the spacecraft we launch ...

Five years of imagery from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have been stitched together to create an all-sky and northern & southern ecliptic mosaics. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

The official marker of the summer season arrives tonight. It's the summer solstice, which has been celebrated for thousands ...

🌞 See the Sun from a whole new angle. For the first time, our Solar Orbiter mission has captured close-up images of the Sun’s mysterious poles, regions long hidden from our view.

That line is called the ecliptic, and it looks similar to the arc-like path the Sun charts each day in the sky. ... like a disc, known as the ecliptic or ecliptic plane.