Solar Orbiter isn’t the first spacecraft to study the sun’s poles—but it’s the first to send back photographs Meghan Bartels Wed, June 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTC ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole. Popular Renaissance Fair leaving Brevard, but ...

A radiance map of the sun’s south pole as recorded by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is seen in this image released by the European Space Agency on Jun 11, 2025.

The sun’s secret south pole has stepped into the light. For the first time, humanity has captured striking views of the sun’s mysterious polar region, thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020 and has been monitoring ...

Solar Orbiter, conversely, has multiple cameras to capture images of the sun. In March, after four flybys of Venus, the spacecraft swooped about 32 million miles over the sun’s south pole at an ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That ...

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the first clear images of the Sun’s south pole, revealing that both north and south magnetic polarities are currently present on the same side.

ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent ...