The joint ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter mission has delivered a stunning new image of the Sun and its corona. The sun-observing satellite originally launched in 2020, and besides making the Sun look cool, the data it’s captured has impacted things like our understanding of solar wind.
Today’s photo shows off the spun-sugar-like particles caught in the magnetic field of the Sun’s atmosphere, the dark “filaments” of cooler material weaving their way in between and bursting active areas that emit
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