The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter captured a surreal video of the Sun’s ever-changing landscape up close. This transition from the Sun’s lower atmosphere to the much hotter outer corona reveal its hair-like structures, which are actually made of charged gas (plasma), following magnetic field lines emerging from the interior.
As for the visible brighter regions, those are around one million degrees Celsius, while cooler material appears dark sports as they absorb radiation. This footage was recorded on September 27, 2023 using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on Solar Orbiter. At that time, the spacecraft was approximately 1/3 the Earth’s distance from the Sun.
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On the same day that this video was recorded, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed just 7.26 million km from the solar surface. Rather than directly imaging the Sun, Parker measures particles and the magnetic field in the Sun’s corona and in the solar wind,” said the European Space Agency.
