The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, pulling data from its Solar Orbiter probe, which it runs with NASA.

While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system.

This video combines ultraviolet images of the sun's outer atmosphere (the corona, yellow) taken by Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument, with the size and locations of solar ...