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

Newly-released photos capture the sun in highest resolution ever, space agency says The Solar Orbiter, which launched in February 2020, imaged the sun's surface from less than 46 million miles ...

See our Sun like NEVER before: European Space Agency unveils the first ever photo of our home star's south pole - and says the best snaps are yet to come ...

An i mage shared to Facebook in March 2025 claiming to show "the most clearest picture of the sun ... Taken by NASA" garnered more than 266,000 reactions on Facebook at the time of this writing ...