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

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles. Reading time 3 minutes For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have ...
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Amazing solar orbiter views of Mercury transiting the Sun

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...
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Solar Orbiter Captures the First-Ever Images of the Sun’s South Pole

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...
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Solar Orbiter unveils sun’s chaotic magnetic south pole in historic first

The sun’s secret south pole has stepped into the light. For the first time, humanity has captured striking views of the sun’s mysterious polar region, thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. In a ...
AOL

Solar Orbiter offers first glimpse of the Sun’s poles in breakthrough mission

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole have been captured by the robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The European Space Agency (ESA) released images on Wednesday using three of Solar Orbiter's ...
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Solar Orbiter Launched

Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch ...
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First-ever images of the Sun's south pole captured by ESA probe

ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent star, ...
AOL

Solar Orbiter captures the highest-resolution images of the sun’s surface yet

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. New images of the ...
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Solar Orbiter Discovers Tiny Jets That Could Power The Solar Wind

The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered a multitude of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Each jet lasts between 20 and 100 seconds, and expels plasma at ...
Space.com

Solar Orbiter traces solar wind back to its mysterious source for 1st time

"This was a key objective of the mission and opens the way for us to study the solar wind's origin in unprecedented detail." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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Solar Orbiter observes jets of material escaping the sun

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The Solar Orbiter mission has discovered ...