The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

(CNN) — New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged ...

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A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter observes ...

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The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists ...

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Artistic Impression of the Sun’s supergranules. Supergranules transport heat near the surface of the Sun and are approximately 3 times wider than the Earth. Hot material from inside the sun rises to ...

Our understanding of the sun has come a long way in recent decades, but there are still multiple outstanding mysteries that current and future missions hope to solve. When you purchase through links ...