This solar eclipse was created by 2 satellites flying in formation, allowing astronomers to photograph the Sun’s corona.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a rare solar eclipse on July 25, 2025, during which 62% of the sun was blocked by ...

The inner solar corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar ...

When they point straight at the Sun the Occulter’s 1.4-metre disc casts an 8-centimetre shadow onto the Coronagraph’s ASPIICS camera, thus forming an artificial eclipse. With the glare removed, ...

According to the researchers working on this project, the ASPIICS can see more detail and detect fainter features than traditional coronagraphs, and that's all owed to the Occulter blocking most ...

The images themselves were processed by scientists and engineers at the ASPIICS Science Operations Centre at the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

Proba-3’s images, captured by the ASPIICS coronagraph, offer a closer look at the corona, providing scientists with insights into the Sun’s dynamic behavior.

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the two probes, which are part of the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission, ...

The ASPIICS coronagraph aboard ESA’s formation-flying Proba-3 mission is able to observe the Sun’s corona in the gap between the fields of view of solar extreme-ultraviolet imagers and conventional ...

"Seeing the first data from ASPIICS is incredibly exciting," Joe Zender, Proba-3 project scientist, said in an ESA press release.

ASPIICS will investigate this temperature paradox by imaging regions very near the Sun with little stray light, detecting even the slightest structures.