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Scientists Watched the Sun Explode Three Times in Five Hours Thanks to a New Spacecraft Duo
['Sarah Jones']
The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 mission has captured a rare sequence of three solar prominence eruptions inside the sun’s inner corona.
Flying in precise formation, the two Proba-3 spacecraft are designed to block the bright solar disk and reveal the faint structures around it.
The Proba-3 spacecraft duo flies in formation around Earth to create an artificial solar eclipse.
The sun’s corona and a solar prominence revealed during an observation of the solar atmosphere.
By capturing prominence eruptions in motion, Proba-3 is helping researchers follow events that were once much harder to observe.