Spectacular images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft show the largest eruption from a solar prominence ever observed. The eruption extended millions of kilometers into space.
The Solar Orbiter, jointly operated by the US space agency NASA and the European Space Agency ESA, was able to capture fascinating but also disturbing images. On February 15 there was a coronal mass ejection that was so powerful that it traveled millions of kilometers into space.
The prominence observed by Solar Orbiter was the largest such event ever recorded along with the solar disk in a single field of view. The Solar Orbiter can see everything around the Sun up to about 3.5 million kilometers away at a glance. This solar flare is likely to have traveled about two to three million kilometers into space.
The giant coronal mass ejection took place on the far side of the Sun ... Read even more
