From the Lab: ESA's Solar Orbiter reveals sun's south pole for first time

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by capturing the first-ever ...
autoevolution

Spacecraft Takes First-Ever Images of the Sun's South Pole from Outside the Ecliptic Plane

A large number of spacecraft have been sent to space over the years to study the star in our solar system, but they all tended to follow the same recipe: they lined up in orbit around the Sun within a ...
Hosted on MSN

Astronomers Just Took the First-Ever Picture of the Bottom of the Sun

Astronomers have gotten an unprecedented view of the bottom of the Sun. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency shared images that show, in all its tumultuous glory, our star's secretive south pole.
Gizmodo

Solar Orbiter Captures First Clear Views of Sun’s South Pole—and It’s a Hot Mess

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have journeyed through ...
EurekAlert!

Unlocking the secrets of the Sun’s poles

The Sun’s poles are one of the last uncharted frontiers in solar physics. While space-based satellites and ground-based telescopes have provided extraordinary views of the solar surface, atmosphere, ...
EurekAlert!

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

From Earth, we always look towards the Sun's equator. This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission broke free of this ‘standard’ viewpoint by tilting its orbit to 17° – out of the ecliptic plane where ...