It took millions of years of being a species before humans took the first picture of our own Earth's southernmost point. Now, after less than a century in space, we've photographed the Sun's south ...

The Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever views of the sun's south pole. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), via ESA Standard Licence Though humans have been observing the ...

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole reveal a messy jumble of magnetic activity in a never-before-seen region of our nearest star. The images, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and ...

Analysis of the data has now been published, which reveals magnetic fields speeding toward the pole much faster than expected—reshaping key ideas about the Sun’s powerful cycles. The research ...

Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...

Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on Earth because my feet were still on the ground and the sky was still overhead. I’m an astrophysicist from Wisconsin who ...