The Sun is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar System. It whips up electrons to nearly the speed of light and flings them out into space, flooding the…
The Solar Orbiter mission—a groundbreaking partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA—is a testament to humanity’s unrelenting drive to explore and understand our universe. Launched in 2020, this…
Giant solar eruption seen by Solar Orbiter 18/02/2022 The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full…
First Solar Orbiter movies showing coronal mass ejections (CMEs)A pair of CMEs were detected by multiple instruments during February’s close flyby of the SunCMEs are eruptions of particles from the…
Munich, 18 October 2019 – Solar Orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship mission to study the Sun has completed all tests and is set to be flown to Cape…