Off on a run to the sun

Enbio started off life as an orthopaedics firm, but found that its technology was perfect for use in solar exploration, writes Emmet Ryan

John O’Sullivan (left) and Barry Twomey of Enbio Picture: Fergal Philips

The sun is hot. Really, really hot. We’re around 150 million kilometres from it and it still heats us. That makes trying to get close to it in order to take a look difficult, even for our smartest and most advanced machines.

An Irish firm has come up with a means to bring machines closer to the sun than ever before by going way back in human history. Enbio, based in the DCU ...