ESA photo compalation of our sun WoW!

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ESA = The Europen Space Agency


Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this detailed view of the Sun.

What you see is the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, as it looks in ultraviolet light.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/I...iew_of_the_Sun


[Technical details: This large image was assembled from images taken between 13:06 and 17:31 UTC (14:06–18:31 CET) on 9 March 2025 by Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager at a wavelength of 17.4 nanometres. Solar Orbiter was viewing the Sun from a latitude 11.4° below the equator at a distance of around 77 million km. The final image is 12544 x 12544 pixels in size, corresponding 6171.6 x 6171.6 arc seconds or 2325.5 x 2325.5 million km. The Sun, which has a diameter of 1.4 million km, spans around 7505 pixels and 3692.6 arc seconds.]