The European Space Agency-led spacecraft Solar Orbiter, which carries instruments designed and built at UCL, has captured the first ever images of the Sun’s south pole. All previous images of the Sun were taken from directly above the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, and spacecraft orbit the Sun within a flat disc called the ecliptic plane. Following a slingshot flyby of the planet Venus in February this year, Solar Orbiter has tilted out of this plane, revealing the Sun