'Campfires' burning on surface of sun
Fiery loops dubbed "campfires" have been photographed on the sun for the first time after a spacecraft transmitted the closest ever images of the star.
The Solar Orbiter probe, a joint venture between the European Space Agency and Nasa, is on a two-year mission to learn more about the nuclear furnace at the heart of our solar system, and the devastating space weather it produces that can wreak havoc on our communications systems.
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