Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface

You've seen the sun, but you've never seen the sun like this. This single frame from a video captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter mission shows the sun looking very fluffy! You can see feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma following magnetic field lines in the sun's lower atmosphere as it transitions into the much hotter outer corona.

The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, which was taken by its Solar Orbiter last year. The video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star's lower atmosphere in the form of "coronal rain,

A recent detailed video taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft of the European Space Agency reveals the appearance of the Sun's surface.

A new video released by the European Space Agency's solar orbiter has captured the surface of the Sun in great detail, showing a small explosion the size of the Earth and magnetic lines emerging from the star's interior.