A viral image circulating on social media purports to show a clear close-up view of the face of the star at the center of the solar system. "One of the most clear pictures of the sun's surface," reads ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ...