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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory: Media
satellite
Images
imaging using ultraviolet light
The Sun as imaged in extreme ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar and Heliospheric...
NASA
solar flare
One of the strongest solar flares ever detected, in an extreme ultraviolet (false-colour)...
SOHO/ESA/NASA
solar corona
The Sun's corona as seen by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) aboard...
SOHO and NASA/ESA
coronal mass ejection
The Sun violently ejecting a bubble of hot plasma in a very large coronal mass ejection...
SOHO/ESA/NASA
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