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The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

This composite image from the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission showcases the Sun observed across eight different wavelengths, each revealing distinct layers and temperatures of the solar atmosphere. The ...

Weird magnetic fields at the sun's south pole The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, it turns out. The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun ...

The instrument captured the first Doppler measurement of the Sun's south pole, allowing researchers to map the movement of solar material between layers of the star's atmosphere.

Well, the pole's magnetic field, simply put, is a mess at the moment. See, the sun's magnetic field flips roughly every 11 years, and it's about to flip this year if it hasn't yet.

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

But during solar maximum, the star is in magnetic chaos. Solar Orbiter’s observations indicate that there is currently no dominant polarity at either pole, De Groof adds.

PHI's maps of the solar magnetic field highlight an intriguing paradox: While most magnets have a distinct north and south pole, the sun's south pole is ... one type of magnetic polarity apiece as our ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...