Science & Exploration 11/06/2025 27446 views 95 likes Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather. Any image you have ever seen of the Sun was taken from around the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, a...