European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured video of an explosion of plasma from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, for the first time. Skip to main content.

An enormous coronal mass ejection (CME), a burst of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona, shot out from the sun on Aug. 30 in the direction of Venus.

The same coronal mass ejection Solar Orbiter’s SoloHI instrument observed, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A — one of two spacecraft launched in 2006. NASA/STEREO/COR2 ...

SOHO captures coronal mass ejection blasting from the Sun's far side in the direction of Venus In the early hours of Sunday 4 September, Solar Orbiter flew by Venus for a gravity-assist manoeuvre ...

The Solar Orbiter is on a long journey to study the Sun from up close. It got a taste of the Sun's power as it just got hit with quite a strong coronal mass ejection (CME).

As it did, they captured some pretty stunning examples of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These CMEs are large releases of plasma from the solar corona, often following solar flares.

An image compiles views of a coronal mass ejection from three different instruments on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The footage was captured Feb. 12 and Feb. 13, 2021.

The first coronal mass ejection observed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) appears as a sudden gust of white that expands into the solar wind. The little black and white boxes that ...

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Solar Orbiter tool records very first video of a coronal mass ejection. A Sun probe built by the European Space Agency and NASA has captured its first video of the Sun emitting a coronal mass ...

How fast does a coronal mass ejection travel vs. a solar flare? A CME can reach speeds of almost 1,900 miles per second. At that speed one can reach Earth in about 15 to 18 hours.

As if trying to get the orbiter’s attention as it cosied up to another body in the Solar System, the Sun flung an enormous coronal mass ejection straight at the spacecraft and planet just two ...