NASA and ESA’s camera mounted on a Solar Orbiter probe managed to capture the special phenomenon.
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The Solar Orbiter solar probe made a landmark observation in space when it recorded the last week’s solar eruptionas it was able to capture the largest event to date.
Solar eruptions are structures of enormous, tangled magnetic field lines that hold a densely concentrated solar plasma above the surface of a star, creating arcuate loop shapes – read European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday.
On a series of footage recorded on Feb. 15, we can see a protrusion erupting into space millions of miles away, proving to be one of the largest corona ejections ever observed.
Fortunately, this part of the solar flare escaped the Earth, so it didn’t cause a problem for our planet – an unusual occurrence in the Solar Orbiter is called Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging picked up.
The next time the spacecraft approaches the Sun is on March 26, it will be just 0.3 times the distance from the Sun to Earth, or about 150 million kilometers past our central star, so the celestial body may look much larger in later photos and videos.
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