The ESA just released our best look yet at the Sun's north pole

Spotting the Sun is easy on a cloud-free day, but scientists hoping to learn more about our nearest star have a difficult task when it comes to studying its poles. We get great views of all sides of the Sun as Earth orbits it, but seeing its top and bottom is surprisingly hard. The European Space Agency has been working on solving this problem by carefully piecing together a number of different images of the Sun's north pole that were gathered by satellites. Now, for the first time, we have a pr...