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Solar Orbiter captures coronal mass ejection

The dramatic space weather has been captured on tape.

The first coronial masss ejection witnessed by Solar Orbiter’s Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, as seen from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A spacecraft. Credits: NASA/STEREO/COR2
The first CME witnessed by Solar Orbiter’s Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, as seen from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A spacecraft. Credit: NASA/STEREO/COR2