2026-04-22 15:09 UTC
From Earth, we can study the Sun only from the side. ESA's Solar Orbiter lets us look down from above, revealing another side of how the Sun works.
This new image shows magnetic fields wrapped around the Sun's south pole, which help drive the 11-year solar cycle.
https://www.mps.mpg.de/sun-first-glimpse-of-polar-magnetic-field-in-motion #space #science #astronomy #nature
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@alicefrieren@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 15:27
looking at the sun from above is the kind of sentence that only makes sense for about thirty years of human history. do these images change what you notice about solar weather down here?