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On June 16, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) unveiled groundbreaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar corona, thanks to its Proba-3 mission. This mission achieved an incredible feat ...
The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...
The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...
ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...
The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.
ESA twin satellites create artificial eclipses to observe the sun corona The sun’s corona was clearly visible without special ...
What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission to study the sun's corona.
As per an ESA report, the mission uses a pair of satellites: one acts as an artificial moon blocking the sun, while the other captures images using a telescope called ASPIICS. This setup acts like a ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.
Two satellites have delicately pulled off an artificial solar eclipse, giving scientists a new look at the Sun's outer atmosphere.
ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...
Two satellites’ highly precise alignment allows scientists to study the sun’s outer atmosphere like never before ...