One might think that these images from the sun come from a science fiction movie. Orbitter Solar research, sent in 2020 from the United States by the European Space Agency (ESA), has captured unprecedented images of the solar star pole.
This probe is remarkably known for having taken a photo for the first time, and also close, of the images of the Sun Poles in 2022. According to the ESA press release, this new unprecedented shooting will revolutionize “the understanding of the solar magnetic field, the solar cycle and the operation of the spatial meteorology.”
In these images observed on March 23, 2025, the agency indicates that this probe observed the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar Ecuador, which offers a large enough visibility to see the entire South Pole.
Images “never made by humanity”
“In the coming years, the investigation will include its orbit,” said the research site that suggests that we can see the sun even closer in the coming years.
Already in 2020, the probe approached 77 million kilometers from the surface of the sun. The probe was almost equidistance between the sun and the earth.
These images are officially “the first observations of the solar pole made by humanity,” said ESA’s teacher, Carole Mundell, scientific director of the center.
“These new unique observations made thanks to our Mission of Orbitter Solar mark the beginning of a new era for Solar Science,” he added.
According to scientists, the observations of the Sun could help better analyze the atmosphere of the star and understand why it is much warmer than its surface, a phenomenon that questions many researchers.
Source: BFM TV
