These Videos From a Space Probe Flying Past The Sun Are Truly Out of This World

A spacecraft looping around the Sun has made its first close approach – and filmed the encounter in glorious detail.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter entered the close encounter, known as perihelion, on 26 March, coming in at a distance of around 48 million kilometers , inside the orbit ofAt that proximity, temperatures reached around 500 degrees Celsius . Future perihelions are expected to get even closer and hotter.

These new observations, taken with Solar Orbiter's 10 scientific instruments working together for the first time, should provide a wealth of data for teasing out the behavior of the Sun, including its wild magnetic fields, and the sometimes chaotic weather it blasts out into interplanetary space.from the spacecraft as it made its close approach. Now ESA has released video of the encounter, for a solar probe's-eye view of our magnificent star.

The polar regions are thought to be extremely important regions for the solar magnetic fields that play such a huge role in solar activity. However, because the poles are so hard to see, we don't know what happens to the magnetic fields there. With its suite of instruments, Solar Orbiter offers unprecedented insight into these enigmatic regions.

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