ESA's Solar Orbiter Captures Wind Flying Out from Sun in Whirling Motion for the First Time

In addition to sunlight, the Sun sends a stream of particles called the solar wind. The Solar Orbiter mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the help of NASA was launched in 2020 to obtain the closest images of the Sun ever taken. Unprecedented, it is the first to capture with a camera this wind coming out of the Sun in a rotating motion: particles of the solar wind spiraling out as if they were trapped in a cyclone stretching milli…

ESA's Solar Orbiter Captures Wind Flying Out from Sun in Whirling Motion for the First Time

ESA’s Solar Orbiter captured stunning imagery of solar wind flying out from the Sun in a whirling motion for the first time. We can see the solar wind particles spiraling outwards as if they were caught in a cyclone that extends millions of kilometers from Earth’s nearest star. One of the Solar Orbiter’s big aims [...]