{"id":29470,"date":"2025-06-11T14:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29470"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:27:52","slug":"first-ever-images-of-suns-south-pole-released-by-esa-solar-orbiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29470","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Images of Sun\u2019s South Pole Released by ESA Solar Orbiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visuals from the European Space Agency\u2019s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

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The European Space Agency\u2019s Solar Orbiter captured the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator, enough to directly see the sun\u2019s south pole.<\/span>ESA & NASA\/Solar Orbiter\/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB) & ESA\/Royal Observatory of Belgium<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spacecraft<\/a> and specialized telescopes<\/a> have been studying the sun closely for decades, probing the secrets of its spots, flares and corona<\/a>. But neither human nor robotic eyes had properly seen the north or south poles of the sun.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency released the first clear images of the sun\u2019s south pole, which were captured in late March by its Solar Orbiter spacecraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the first time ever that humanity has had an image of the poles of the sun,\u201d said Carole Mundell, director of science for the European Space Agency. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists have had vague glimpses of the sun\u2019s poles before. However, those side-on views have been akin to \u201clooking through grass,\u201d said Mathew Owens, a space physicist at the University of Reading in England, who added that it has been difficult to work out what is happening at the poles and how they differ from other regions of the star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By studying its polar extremes, scientists hope to gain new insights into the sun and how it behaves.<\/p>\n

And the best is yet to come \u2014 later this year, humans will get our first images of the sun\u2019s north pole from Solar Orbiter, before the spacecraft swoops ever higher and lower above the sun\u2019s poles for even better views.<\/p>\n

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Visuals from the European Space Agency\u2019s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.The European Space Agency\u2019s Solar Orbiter captured the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator, enough to directly see the sun\u2019s south pole.ESA & NASA\/Solar Orbiter\/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB) & ESA\/Royal Observatory of BelgiumSpacecraft and specialized telescopes have been studying the sun closely for decades, probing the secrets of its spots, flares and corona. But neither human nor robotic eyes had properly seen the north or south poles of the sun.On Wednesday, the European Space Agency released the first clear images of the sun\u2019s south pole, which were captured in late March by its Solar Orbiter spacecraft.\u201cIt\u2019s the first time ever that humanity has had an image of the poles of the sun,\u201d said Carole Mundell, director of science for the European Space Agency. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful achievement.\u201dScientists have had vague glimpses of the sun\u2019s poles before. However, those side-on views have been akin to \u201clooking through grass,\u201d said Mathew Owens, a space physicist at the University of Reading in England, who added that it has been difficult to work out what is happening at the poles and how they differ from other regions of the star.By studying its polar extremes, scientists hope to gain new insights into the sun and how it behaves.And the best is yet to come \u2014 later this year, humans will get our first images of the sun\u2019s north pole from Solar Orbiter, before the spacecraft swoops ever higher and lower above the sun\u2019s poles for even better views.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29472,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29473,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470\/revisions\/29473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}