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…

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…

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…

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

Science & Exploration 11/06/2025 604 views 2 likes Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the…

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

What if we could look at the Sun from a whole new angle, one we’ve never…

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 being loaded for their voyage to the launch site

The first of the new generation of MetOp satellites, MetOp-SG-A1, together with the instrument for the…

Axiom 4 crew inside Dragon

Axiom 4 Mission crew training inside a SpaceX Dragon vehicle in Hawthorne, California. From left to…

Uranus and its four largest moons

Astronomers studied the four largest moons of Uranus with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At a…

ESA – 14 Herculis c

This image of 14 Herculis c, a planet orbiting a star 60 light-years away from Earth,…