Think you’ve seen the Sun? Think again. ☀️ This is the most detailed wide-angle view of our star ever captured – and it’s nothing short of spectacular. Five years into its mission, our Solar Orbiter has delivered an ultra-crisp mosaic of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the million-degree corona, glowing in ultraviolet light. Swipe through to discover: - Charged plasma dancing through messy magnetic fields - Loops of light above sunspot-packed active regions - Dark, cooler filaments and towering prominences - And how 200 separate images were stitched together into this jaw-dropping solar portrait Taken on 9 March 2025 from 77 million km away, this masterpiece was made possible by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, developed by the Royal Observatory of Belgium, aboard Solar Orbiter – a mission of international collaboration between us and NASA. Have a favourite region? Drop it in the comments. 📸 europeanspaceagency & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB); creativecommons by-SA ...