Corey S Powell
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NASA's new PUNCH mission is a constellation of 4 small satellites that collectively provide an unprecedented view of giant eruptions breaking free from the Sun.

This first-release video compresses about 6 days of observations.

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/06/10/nasas-punch-releases-its-first-images-of-huge-eruptions-from-sun/ #space #science #nature #nasa

From late May to early June 2025, PUNCH’s three Wide Field Imagers captured views of coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, traveling out from the Sun into the solar system. The CMEs can be seen moving in all directions, including directly at the camera. The constellation Orion is visible at the bottom left, Venus can be seen at the far right, and Jupiter to the left of center. The bright object that leaves the frame on the left at the beginning of the video is the Moon. The small yellow dot at the center denotes the Sun, and the dashed white line around it represents the field of view of LASCO C3, an earlier coronagraph still used to forecast space weather aboard NASA-ESA’s SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory).
From late May to early June 2025, PUNCH’s three Wide Field Imagers captured views of coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, traveling out from the Sun into the solar system. The CMEs can be seen moving in all directions, including directly at the camera. The constellation Orion is visible at the bottom left, Venus can be seen at the far right, and Jupiter to the left of center. The bright object that leaves the frame on the left at the beginning of the video is the Moon. The small yellow dot at the center denotes the Sun, and the dashed white line around it represents the field of view of LASCO C3, an earlier coronagraph still used to forecast space weather aboard NASA-ESA’s SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory).