It's the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image, along with the full disk of the sun.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft made a milestone observation in space as it captured a huge solar prominence, or eruption.
It's the largest such event ever observed in a single image along with the full solar disk and will add to the joint NASA-European mission to better understand solar activity, mission officials said in a statement. "Solar prominences are large structures of tangled magnetic field lines that keep dense concentrations of solar plasma suspended above the sun's surface, sometimes taking the form of arching loops," the European Space Agency said inSolar prominences"are often associated with coronal mass ejections," ESA added, speaking of the eruptions of charged particles the sun emits from time to time.