The Sun’s south pole
Though the Sun’s nature is common knowledge—it’s a piping-hot gaseous sphere—NASA & ESA’s Solar Orbiter is giving us our best-ever views of the star. The orbiter has even dipped into the Sun’s corona, making it the only human-made object to literally touch a star. This view of the Sun’s south pole makes our local star intimately familiar—I almost want to touch it now.
