The Sun as seen by Solar Orbiter in extreme ultraviolet light from a distance of roughly 75 million kilometres.
The Sun as seen by Solar Orbiter in extreme ultraviolet light from a distance of roughly 75 million kilometres. A UCL-led team has created the highest resolution image yet of the Sun's lower atmosphere, whose eruptions can cause hazardous space weather around Earth. The image was created using data from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter. It is a mosaic of 25 individual images taken by the spacecraft's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on March 7, when the satellite was crossing directly between the Earth and the Sun. The images were taken one after another over four hours at a distance of roughly 75 million kilometres from the Sun - about halfway between our world and its parent star. The EUI is one of two suites of instruments onboard Solar Orbiter whose science teams are led by UCL researchers. The other UCL-led instrument is the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA).
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