A European spacecraft takes the closest image of the Sun

By 16/07/2020 Portal

A European space probe has taken the closest images of the Sun ever achieved. In them you can see the solar disk full of tiny cells that are actually millions of hydrogen bubbles at 6,000 degrees, each one larger than the entire Iberian Peninsula. The images perfectly portray the insignificance of the Earth compared to its star, which is about 300,000 times more massive and accumulates 99% of all the matter in the Solar System. All planets, including the gigantic Jupiter and Saturn and also small, rocky ones like Mars and Earth, less than 1% remaining.

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