# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJwBDyRM0wI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35582138-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/99f505d5e9.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-05-17T09:50:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80

## Caption

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 3.0 IGO
📹 ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB); CC by-SA 3.0 IGO

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## Credits

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |

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