The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane, or the plane that contains the Earth's orbit around the Sun. [Read More]
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the highest resolution photo ever taken of the Sun that includes its full disc, outer atmosphere, and corona that has ever been captured. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-02 17:58
NASA and the ESA revealed the first images of the Sun from its Solar Orbiter joint mission, providing an unprecedented look at our star. The images have revealed a new mystery that scientists have named 'campfires' -- this refers to miniature solar flares on the Sun described by ESA as 'omnipresent. dpreview.com »
2020-07-17 21:48
NASA and the ESA’s new Solar Orbiter is off to an auspicious start. The spacecraft’s very first images of the Sun—captured from within 48 million miles of our closest star—weren’t just taken from closer than ever before… they’ve already revealed a new solar phenomenon. petapixel.com »
2020-07-16 22:37
After a slight hiccup and one-day delay, the European Space Agency's incredible Proba-3 mission successfully launched into space. The Proba-3 mission will do something never seen before: it will precisely and repeatedly create solar eclipses in orbit using two satellites.
Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), which some hoped might be a nice Halloween treat and great follow-up act to the stunning comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) dazzled the skies throughout October, has evaporated after flying into the Sun.
The shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year has been revealed with a hatful of spectacular celestial images picked from over 3,500 entries. [Read More]
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured this magnificent image of the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the surface of the Sun in the blink of an eye. [Read More]
The European Space Agency (ESA) published a new video captured from its Solar Orbiter that provides an up-close, detailed look at the Sun's corona. [Read More]
The Sun has been very active so far this month, with powerful sympathetic solar flares dazzling scientists and viewers alike and recent X-class flares making many wonder about communications network integrity.