[trickymainly]

looks like a bowling ball no cap

[hadid21]

What kind of material should the camera be made of in order not to melt at such a distance from the sun?

[Boudica]

What kind of material should the camera be made of in order not to melt at such a distance from the sun?

There's an article that explains it well in laymen's terms: here

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How will Solar Oribiter cope near the Sun?
Solar Orbiter has been designed to experience sunlight 13 times more intense than what we feel on Earth.

It will face heat of more than 500 degrees - that's much hotter than boiling water.

To keep cool Solar Orbiter has a sunshield to help protect it from the full intensity of the Sun, and it's also got radiators that pass heat from the probe back out into space.

[anone509]

this is really interesting, thank you for sharing

[JollyRoger95]

Man I never get tired of seeing these images, incredibly how huge the universe is . Just the sun is enormous

[Boudica]

Man I never get tired of seeing these images, incredibly how huge the universe is . Just the sun is enormous

And then you find out it's not even that big for a star xD

[CheapJudgeServant]

imagine what kind of imagery will be possible in a decade, 2?

[wtf3421]

This image is kind of amazing because of the exposure control of shooting so close to the strongest source of light in our universe

[Boudica]

This image is kind of amazing because of the exposure control of shooting so close to the strongest source of light in our universe

Idk about the universe, but in our solar system for sure haha! I don't think this is the "raw" image in the same way we take photos on our phone. It's received data and been programmed to display that data in the image. In a sense, it's a reconstructed image. There's a pretty good article that talks about how it works here.

[rubolf]

It's fascinating. Can't take my eyes on the image