Solar Orbiter

Astronomical teamwork: By combining data from Solar Orbiter and SDO, a group of researchers has unambiguously determined the magnetic field at the solar surface. more

Images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter offer the best look yet at a source region of the solar wind - and challenge our view of the continuous particle stream from the Sun.   more

Imaging and spectroscopy in the extreme UV with Solar Orbiter more

The publishing group Springer Nature has selected an MPS publication as the best in the journal Solar Physics in the past year. more

In his PhD thesis, the MPS scientist modeled which magnetic field structures in the solar corona trigger miniature solar flares, so-called campfires. more