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Article on NOAA Sharing Imagery From World’s First Space-based Coronagraph

Blue and white shaded image of a Coronal Mass Ejection erupting from the Sun
GIF image of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) seen by the CCOR instrument on September 29, 2024.
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On October 22, 2024, NOAA shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the new GOES-19 satellite.

CCOR-1, the world’s first operational, space-based coronagraph, began observing the sun’s corona, the faint outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, on September 19, 2024.

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