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Watch as ESA's artificial eclipse maker catches 3 solar prominences erupting one after another

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 is a marvel of engineering. Two spacecraft fly in formation to observe the Sun. Well, not ...

Proba-3 mission captures rare solar prominence eruptions in sun's inner corona

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images ...

A spacecraft 'eclipsed' the sun for 5 hours — and captured a rare spree of eruptions

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" footage of three solar prominences erupting from the sun's mysteriously hot ...

Rare Solar Eruptions Explode From the Sun in New Space Time Lapse

A new time-lapse reveals the Sun’s inner corona glowing a faint yellow, offering a rare look at the hottest layer of our star’s atmosphere. The footage was created using images from the ASPIICS ...

Watch three solar prominences erupt in epic video

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. The ...

Never-seen-before video of Sun sees towers of 10,000C plasma erupting into space after scientists created ‘fake eclipse’

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage of the Sun shows incredible towering eruptions exploding into the darkness of space. It was ...

ESA solar probes Proba-3: Time-lapse shows three intense prominences at once

Using artificial solar eclipses, the ESA probes Proba-3 are researching the corona of our home star. Now there is an ...