Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

It just delivered some incredible new observations of the Sun, which include the highest-resolution view of the ... The images were taken less than 74 million kilometers (46 million miles) away ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of ... were assembled from observations taken by the Solar Orbiter's ...

The images, taken on March 22, 2023, and released Wednesday, showcase different dynamic aspects of the sun ... high-resolution images from Solar Orbiter bring us closer to that aspiration than ...

These are millionths of the size of the Sun's giant flares ... while the new images have been taken from the closest ever vantage point, they are not the highest resolution ever acquired.

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...