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Most detailed images of the Sun returned by Solar Orbiter

Rob Beschizza
Nov 20, 2024
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The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter returned the most detailed images yet captured of the sun's surface (beating its own previous best by about 3m km). Above, the sun in ultraviolet.

The images were taken when Solar Orbiter was less than 74 million kilometres from the Sun; being so close meant each high-resolution image only covers a small porti…

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