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ESA spacecraft takes fiery images of Sun before close fly-by
The Solar Orbiter mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) had its last close approach to the Sun at around 12.42 AM today. It took a sequence of images that depict the sun blazing in all its glory, popping and crackling with solar explosions. The colours in the images are added artificially because the original wavelength of the light is invisible to the human eye. The image appears to jump slightly towards the end of the sequence since those frames are missing because EUI was not returning data to Earth on those days. There has been an increase in solar activity in recent years. In February, SpaceX lost an entire fleet of Starlink satellites due to a solar storm that knocked them out of orbit. Source - The Indian Express
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