But there’s one satellite that takes everything that the Sun dishes out and turns it into a near-constant stream of high-quality data, and it’s been doing it for almost 15 years now.

This will allow the Coronagraph satellite to study the corona, which being a million times fainter than the Sun itself, is undetectable without such assistance. Some existing satellites carry ...

The inner corona is revealed in nearly every image ... Orbiting Earth once every 20 hours or so, the satellite pair will simulate a total solar eclipse for a total of 6 hours out of each of ...

Each satellite is smaller than a compact car but stuffed full of probes and other sensors. The larger one, known as the Coronagraph spacecraft, will explore the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere ...

it will see the sun eclipsed by the first satellite, and will only be able to see the corona. Scientists want to study the sun’s corona, but it’s almost always obscured by the bright light ...