Smithsonian Magazine

See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun’s South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft

The Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever views of the sun's south pole. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), via ESA Standard Licence Though humans have been observing the ...
Nature

Our Astronomical Column

THE DRAYSON PARADOX.—A pamphlet by Mr. A. H. Barley on “The Drayson Problem “shows that this curious paradox has still a considerable vogue. It had its origin solely in the somewhat loose language of ...
techtimes

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Sees Shining Pearls, Diamonds in Previously Unseen Galaxies

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope polish up real nice with a new image "bejeweled" with exquisite galactic pearls and diamonds! The North Ecliptic Pole is visible in one of the first medium-deep ...
autoevolution

Spacecraft Takes First-Ever Images of the Sun's South Pole from Outside the Ecliptic Plane

A large number of spacecraft have been sent to space over the years to study the star in our solar system, but they all tended to follow the same recipe: they lined up in orbit around the Sun within a ...
JSTOR Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time-domain Field. I. Field Selection of a JWST Community Field for Time-domain Studies

We describe the selection of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-domain Field (TDF), a ≳14′ diameter field located within JWST’s northern continuous viewing zone (CVZ) ...
Astronomy

Ask Astro: How do we distinguish the north and south poles of planets other than Earth?

A planet's north pole is defined by its position relative to the solar system's invariable plane. The invariable plane is a fixed reference point perpendicular to the solar system's rotation. A planet ...