Solar Orbiter Stories
![An animation shows a white cloud of material billowing away from the Sun (which is covered by a black disk at the center) toward the left side of the image, set against a red background with a couple dozen stars. The top says "STEREO Ahead COR2" and the bottom shows the date 2021-04-17 with the time progressing from 12:23:30 to 23:53:30.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/4-17-21-mars-cme-stereo.gif?w=4096&format=png)
Multiple Spacecraft Tell the Story of One Giant Solar Storm
5 min read
April 17, 2021, was a day like any other day on the Sun, until a brilliant flash erupted and an enormous cloud of solar material billowed away from our star. Such outbursts from the Sun are not unusual, but this…
Article4 months ago
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A New Space Instrument Captures Its First Solar Eruption
3 min read
For new Sun-watching spacecraft, the first solar eruption is always special. On February 12, 2021, a little more than a year from its launch, the European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar Orbiter caught sight of this coronal mass ejection, or…
Article3 years ago
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Unique Solar System Views from NASA Sun-Studying Missions
3 min read
Update, Jan. 28, 2021: A closer look by the Solar Orbiter team — prompted by sharp-eyed citizen scientists — revealed that a fourth planet, Uranus, is also visible in Solar Orbiter’s images from Nov. 18, 2020. Original story, Jan. 26,…
Article3 years ago