EUI’s view of February 2021 CME

Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) captured this coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun on 12 February 2021. At the time, Solar Orbiter was viewing the far side of the Sun, and the eruption is seen towards the left at about -30º latitude (from Earth, it would have appeared towards the right).

The images are taken at the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 17 nanometres, and show the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, which exists at a temperature of around one million degrees.