Washington: A European and NASA spacecraft have taken the closest pictures of the sun to date, showing countless small "campfires" everywhere in the picture. Scientists on Thursday made public the photographs taken by the solar orbiter launched from Cape Orneverl in February.

The orbiter was located approximately 48 million miles (77 million kilometers) from the sun, nearly half of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, when it clicked high-resolution images of the sun last month. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is flying much closer to the sun than a solar orbiter. Its lone camera is looking in the opposite direction from the sun to observe the solar wind. This is the reason why waves of yellow and dark smoke are seen in the new pictures of solar orbiters.

These pictures, taken so close to the Sun and on such a small scale, are extremely valuable. Project scientist Daniel Muller of the European Space Agency said that the team had to create a new dictionary to name the names of these small eruptions. The chief scientist of the device clicking these pictures of Suraj and David Bergmann's of the Royal Observatory of Belgium said that he was surprised. He told that his first reaction after seeing the pictures was, "This is not possible. It cannot be so good."

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