Zoomable images from Solar Orbiter can be perused here. The Sun disk in visible light and the magnetic map of the photosphere. - Image Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ...

Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

The European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar Orbiter is tasked with take images of the Sun closer than any spacecraft has before it and it has delivered some gawkers this week. Technically ...

In addition to the recent photos shared by the ESO, you can track development of the telescope through interactive webcam footage that streams live 24/7. The observatory also shared a time-lapse video ...

New photos from the ESO reveal that progress has ... with the warm glow of the sun rising over the optical telescope. — Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?