Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of sunspots and other solar activity.

“To understand the elaborate interplay between large and small; between twisted magnetic fields and churning flows, we need ...

Each image is made of 25 photographs and the Sun has a diameter of nearly 8,000 pixels in each mosaic, revealing a wealth of insights such as details of its magnetism.

A new 8K camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Tenerife captures images of the Sun's surface in stunning detail.

On 9 March 2025, it captured its most detailed image so far. The spacecraft used its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager to photograph the Sun over four and a half hours. It took 200 frames from 48 million ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of ...

Mark Miesch, a scientist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, emphasised the value of these high-resolution images for studying the sun's complex interactions, from large-scale magnetism to ...

The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI), one of six instruments onboard the spacecraft, imaged the granules on the sun's surface, which are large, turbulent cells of plasma, each spanning ...

creating the widest resolution image of our star. Snapped on March 9, the orbiter was 77 million kilometers (48 million miles) from the Sun. It snapped 200 individual images that were put together ...

“To understand the elaborate interplay between large and small; between twisted magnetic fields and churning flows, we need to behold the sun in all its splendor. These high-resolution images ...

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA ...

“To understand the elaborate interplay between large and small; between twisted magnetic fields and churning flows, we need to behold the sun in all its splendor. These high-resolution images ...