The video was taken by an instrument on SOHO called the LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph), which covers the bright glare of the sun using a disk, allowing more delicate details of ...

Typically, scientists use the view from SOHO's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument to monitor the sun's activity and determine if a coronal mass ejection (CME) accompanies a ...