"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

“Getting that to cross the equator, where the Coriolis force is essentially zero, is kind of impossible because it means you ...

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have journeyed ...

Everything in the sky felt upside down and opposite, compared with what I was used to. A person who lives in the Southern Hemisphere might feel the same about visiting the Arctic or the North Pole.

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

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The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...

The images you see above were captured from an angle of 15 degrees below the equator on March 16 and 17, but the probe has reached the 17 degree maximum angle it could achieve since then.