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Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun ESA508430
24 April 2025 (upload date) - Taken on 9 March 2025
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- Museum
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- Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun
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- CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, as the museum states it.
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- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this detailed view of the Sun. What you see is the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, as it looks in ultraviolet light. Dive in and explore the hot plasma (charged particles) caught in the Sun’s messy magnetic field. Can you spot the glowing coronal loops around active regions, and the darker, cooler filaments and prominences? Obtaining such a detailed image is no easy feat. On 9 March 2025, at around 77 million km from the Sun, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft was oriented to point to different regions across the Sun in a 5 x 5 grid. At each pointing direction, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument captured six images at high resolution and two wide-angle views. The image you see here combines a whopping 200 individual images into the widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet. (See previous full Sun views here.) Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument is led by the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). [Image description: The Sun looks like a warm yellow sphere with a surface covered with glowing messy…
