The orbiting solar module captures the Sun’s delicate corona in stunning detail [Video]

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Solar Orbiter’s mission is to study the Sun up close and at high latitudes, provide the first images of the Sun’s poles and explore the heliosphere. Source: ESA/ATG medialab

Stunning close-up views of the Sun reveal its dynamic magnetic structure and extreme temperatures, captured by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter in collaboration with…

NASA
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This ever-changing landscape (see video below) is what the sun looks like up close. the

European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the exploration and study of space. The European Space Agency was founded in 1975 and has 22 member states, with its headquarters in Paris, France. The European Space Agency is responsible for developing and coordinating space activities in Europe, including the design, construction and launch of spacecraft and satellites for scientific research and Earth observation. Some of ESA’s major missions included the Rosetta mission to study a comet, the Gaia mission to create a 3D map of the Milky Way, and the ExoMars mission to search for evidence of past or present life on Mars.

“gt-data-translation-attributes=”[“attribute”:”data-cmtooltip”, “format”:”html”]” tabindex=”0″ role=”link”>ESASolar Orbiter’s solar probe has imaged the transition from the Sun’s lower atmosphere to the hotter outer corona. The hair-like structures are composed of charged gas (

plasma
Plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, along with solid, liquid, and gas. It is an ionized gas consisting of positive ions and free electrons. It was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.

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The brightest areas are about a million degrees

Celsius
The Celsius scale, also known as the Celsius scale, is a temperature scale named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. In the Celsius scale, 0°C is the freezing point of water and 100°C is the boiling point of water at one atmosphere of pressure.

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This video was recorded on September 27, 2023, by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on Solar Orbiter. At the time, the spacecraft was about a third of Earth’s distance from the Sun, heading for its closest approach of 27 million miles (43 million km) on October 7, 2023.

On the same day this video was recorded, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was just scanning 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) From the surface of the sun. Instead of imaging the Sun directly, Parker measured particles and magnetic fields in the Sun’s corona and in the solar wind. This was an ideal opportunity for the two missions to team up, as ESA-led Solar Orbiter’s remote sensing instruments monitored the source region of the solar wind that would later flow through the Parker Solar Probe.

Spot moss, spicules, eruption, and rain

Bottom left corner: An interesting feature that can be seen throughout this film is the bright gas forming delicate lace-like patterns across the sun. This is called coronal “moss”. It usually appears around the base of large coronal loops that are too hot or too weak to be seen with the chosen instrument settings.

On the solar horizon: Towers of gas, known as spicules, reach out from the sun’s chromosphere. It can reach an altitude of 10,000 km (6,200 mi).

Center around 0:22: A small eruption in the center of the field of view, with cold material rising to the top before most of it falls back to the bottom. Don’t be fooled by the use of the word “small” here: this eruption is bigger than Earth!

Left of center around 0:30: “Cold” coronal rain (probably less than 10,000°C/18,000°F) appears dark against the bright background of large coronal rings (about 1 million degrees Celsius). Rain consists of high-density clumps of plasma that retreat toward the Sun under the influence of gravity.


This is the same video as above but without the captions. Image credit: ESA/NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team

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