ESA Solar Orbiter captures breathtaking up-close video of the Sun

The ESA has captured a close-up video of the Sun, showcasing the star's surface, which looks like a fantastical hellscape.

Last year, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter drew closer to the Sun than it ever has, capturing a close-up video of the Sun’s broiling surface. The video was captured in September by the Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager . It recorded the video from a distance roughly a third of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. That means it was extremely close. Closer than any other spacecraft, save the Parker Solar Probe.

The rain visible across the surface of the Sun is not rain as you might think of it here on Earth, either. Instead, this close-up video of the Sun captures much cooler strands of plasma falling to the surface. Those strands are roughly 10,000 degrees Celsius, and the background behind the drops of plasma is much hotter, around a million degrees Celsius. Spacecraft like the ESA’s Solar Orbiter and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have allowed scientists to get closer looks at the Sun than ever before.

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