The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 is a marvel of engineering. Two spacecraft fly in formation to observe the Sun. Well, not ...

Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" footage of three solar prominences erupting from the sun's mysteriously hot ...

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NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage of the Sun shows incredible towering eruptions exploding into the darkness of space. It was captured by a daring mission that involves creating an “artificial ...

A new time-lapse reveals the Sun’s inner corona glowing a faint yellow, offering a rare look at the hottest layer of our star’s atmosphere. The footage was created using images from the ASPIICS ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images taken by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3. The European Space Agency's ...