The Sun affects everything in the Solar System, and not just through its mass and light. A stream of plasma is constantly released – that is the solar wind – and it impacts all the worlds around the Sun. There are many mysteries surrounding the solar wind, especially at its origin in the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona. A new instrument is looking right at it with incredible results. The Italian-built instrument is called Metis and it is the coronagraph on board the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter. This mission is studying the Sun like never before and soon it will shift its orbital p…