Metis running difference views of February 2021 CME

Solar Orbiter’s Metis coronagraph captured these movies of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun on 12 February 2021. The coronagraph blocks out the dazzling light from the solar surface, allowing the fainter outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, to be seen. This is a ‘running difference’ movie generated from the images seen here, by subtracting from each image the preceding one, a technique used to better emphasize moving features.