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A solar mission shared between the European Space Agency and NASA has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole.

"Today we reveal humankind's first-ever views of the Sun's pole," said Carole Mundell, the ESA's director of science, in a statement. "These new unique views from our Solar Orbiter mission are the ...

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