Why Solar Orbiter is angling towards the Sun’s poles

All images you have ever seen of the Sun were taken from near the Sun’s equator,…

Portrait of a Bobcat

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near…

SPICE sees movement at the Sun’s south pole

The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got…

Solar Orbiter’s view of the Sun’s south pole

From Earth, we always look towards the Sun’s equator. This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission…

A Near-Full ‘Strawberry Moon’ Will Shine Again on Wednesday Night

Night sky observers are being treated this week to a view of a red-tinted full moon…

Solar Orbiter’s world-first views of the Sun’s south pole

This collage shows Solar Orbiter’s view of the Sun’s south pole on 16–17 March 2025, from…

Tuning a NASA Instrument: Calibrating MASTER

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF).…

These images are the first time we have seen the sun’s south pole

The south pole of the sun has never been seen before ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team,…

PHI’s pole-to-pole view of the Sun’s magnetic field

This video shows a magnetic map of the Sun’s surface, recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter…

SPICE sees the Sun’s south pole

The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got…