NASA’S PUNCH Images Eruptions from the Sun

This video shows several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupting from the Sun’s surface from Oct. 21 to Nov. 12, 2025. The CMEs can be seen as cloud-like features moving away from the Sun (at center) in all directions. The comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) can be seen at the top, Venus at the left, and Mercury to the right of center. The video is made from a mosaic of images taken from imagers hosted on PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere)’s four spacecraft. One spacecraft hosts the Narrow Field Imager, which contains a coronagraph that blocks out the Sun in the center, revealing the faint, wispy details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. The other three spacecraft host Wide Field Imagers that provide broad views of the Sun. The images, which are taken several times a day over several days, are then combined into a mosaic to allow scientists to observe solar events that aid in space weather tracking, prediction, and research.
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