We've been hearing a lot about "corona" lately, but a remarkable photo of the solar corona has been making the rounds, courtesy of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter satellite mission. (The link is to Elizabeth Gibney's Nature article about it.) The photo is an excellent complement to a high-resolution photo of solar granulation released earlier this year by the ground-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii (see Alexandra Witze's Nature article here.) Along with NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and a new European ground-based telescope planned for the Canary Islands, we may be entering an exciting period to do solar physics.
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