The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

For the first time, images of the Sun's south pole have been captured by a space probe. This unique perspective provides ...

It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

At solar minimum, the lowest-activity part of the cycle, the sun’s magnetic field is what scientists call a dipole: it looks like a giant bar magnet, with a strong pole at each end.

Solar Orbiter’s photos, published in June 2025, are a scientific first. They show the Sun’s south pole in greater detail than ever before, with a blinding atmosphere heating to a million ...

A previous spacecraft, Ulysses, flew over the solar poles in the 1990s. "Ulysses, however, was blind in the sense that it did not carry any optical instruments - telescopes or cameras ...

The sun's north and south poles do a flip about every decade, but scientists don't know why. NASA and ESA's Solar Orbiter hopes to answer that question.

The Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever views of the sun's south pole. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), via ESA Standard Licence Though humans have been observing ...

Solar Orbiter, conversely, has multiple cameras to capture images of the sun. In March, after four flybys of Venus, the spacecraft swooped about 32 million miles over the sun’s south pole at an ...

This collage shows Solar Orbiter's view of the sun's south pole on 16–17 March 2025, from a viewing angle of about 15° below the solar equator. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI, ...

This type of solar cell can generate solar power at 15-20% efficiency, which means it outputs 15-20% of the energy it receives from the sun. Tesla Solar Roof tiles use crystalline silicon cells.

Since 2009, the maximum efficiency of perovskite solar cells has risen from 3.9% to 30.1%—it took 37 years for crystalline silicon solar cells to achieve comparable efficiencies.