A spacecraft of the European Space Agency has taken the closest pictures of the sun so far, in which small number of small flames are seen everywhere. The scientists released the first images taken by the spacecraft ‘Solar Orbiter’ on Thursday.
The vehicle departed from Cape Canaveral in February. When it took pictures, at that time it was about seven crore 70 lakh kilometers from the Sun i.e. about halfway between the Earth and the Sun.
In these pictures of the sun taken by the vehicle, small small flames of small flames are seen everywhere. European Space Agency project scientist Daniel Muller said the team named these flames “campfires”.
