ESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals the Sun’s poles for the first time

Launched in February 2020, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has been looping around the Sun with a special purpose in mind: Studying the poles of our star.  The planets orbit the Sun in a single plane, called the ecliptic. This means we’re roughly even with the Sun’s equator and don’t see itsContinue reading “ESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals the Sun’s poles for the first time”
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