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Hirzberger (MPS) & E. Kraaikamp (ROB) The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released four new, stellar images of the sun, including the highest resolution views to date of its full, visible ...

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This stunning image of the Sun is captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface ... the process by which hot plasma rises from the sun's depths and cooler plasma sinks, similar ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter observes ...

The spacecraft's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is responsible for studying the surface of the Sun, also known as the photosphere. It does that by snapping images as well as measuring ...