‘Campfires’ seen on Sun in closest images yet

ESA’s Solar Orbiter captured this amazing imagery about 77 million kilometers (47 million miles) from the Sun. The 'campfire'-looking phenomena seen are "omnipresent miniature eruptions that could be contributing to the high temperatures of the solar corona and the origin of the solar wind," according to ESA.

Credit: Space.com / footage courtesy: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL / produced & edited by [Steve Spaleta](http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)

Music: "Heart of Fire" by William Werwath (ASCAP)