An image of the Sun’s corona obtained with the Metis instrument on ESA’s Solar Orbiter. This was obtained on 21 June 2020, shortly after the spacecraft’s first perihelion, and was taken in ultraviolet light (121.6 nm). It shows the two bright equatorial streamers and fainter polar regions that are characteristic of the solar corona during times of minimal magnetic activity.
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA.