Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

According to ESA, the orbiter was 77 million kilometres away from the Sun when it captured the individual images on March 9.

Solar Orbiter took a total of 200 individual images of the sun, which were stitched together into the mosaic, which is the widest high-resolution image of the sun ever taken. Together, these ...