The European Space Agency has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, using data from the Solar Orbiter probe.

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI & STIX, Klaus Nielsen (DTU Space/Maple Pools); Data processing for video by Laura Hayes The Solar Orbiter moves on an elliptical path around the sun ...

To create the video, ESA combined images from two of Solar Orbiter's instruments — the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) and the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). STIX captured ...

The Sun sometimes coughs up solar flares, which occur when the star’s magnetic field twists and sends a burst of energy and ...

So the ESA used data from its British-built Solar Orbiter probe to give us Earthlings ... by the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) instrument. ‘The accompanying audio is a ...

taken by Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument, with the size and locations of solar flares (blue circles) as recorded by the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) ...

This work relies on a vast network of continuous observations of the Sun, notably thanks to the STIX instrument, partly designed at CEA Paris-Saclay and onboard the Solar Orbiter satellite. This ...

ESA and NASA's Solar Orbiter mission captured the sun kicking out flares in 2024. The blue circles ... [+] indicate flares. Our closest star has been delivering quite a show in recent months.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...