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200 Solar Orbiter Photos Turned into a High-Resolution Image of the Sun
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200 Solar Orbiter Photos Turned into a High-Resolution Image of the Sun
There's no better word for this image of the Sun than Spectacular, which means something impressive, dramatic, or remarkable that creates a spectacle or visual impact. It comes from the Latin word spectaculum, which means a show, spectacle, or public exhibition. Ancient Romans would agree with the word choice if you could somehow show it to them.
The NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) mission developed to study the Sun, the Solar Orbiter, shared a new image of the star at the center of our Solar System. ESA states that the photograph was taken on March 9, 2025 at a distance of 77 million kilometers from the Sun, noting that the image you can see below consists of 200 individual images to present the highest possible definition. In addition to admiring this photograph, it is worth going…
Solar Orbiter’s Widest High-Res View Of The Sun
Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter offers a breathtaking view of the Sun’s million-degree atmosphere, known as the corona, in ultraviolet light. This image captures glowing coronal loops around active regions and darker filaments that reveal cooler plasma. Creating such detail was no simple feat, requiring Solar Orbiter to map the Sun’s surface in a 5 x 5 grid on 9 March 2025, producing over 200 images. These were merged into the widest …
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