SOHONEWS – January 11, 2002
A Fiery CME
Another spectacular Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) took off from the Sun in
the early hours of January 4, starting off as a filament eruption seen by
the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) in the 195 images. The
complexity and structure of the CME as it passed through the Large Angle
and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C2 and C3 fields of view amazed even
experienced solar physicists at the SOHO operations center. More details
at:
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2002_01_04/
http://sohowww.estec.esa.nl/hotshots/2002_01_04/
Exclusive Views of Comet 96P/Machholz
You could see it easily with your unaided eye (but don’t try!) if only
Comet Machholz 1 were not so very close to the Sun. The best, and perhaps
the only view of it near perihelion comes from SOHO. As an added bonus,
Venus appears in the images, and a CME erupts as the comet passes by.
See it at:
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2002_01_08/
http://sohowww.estec.esa.nl/hotshots/2002_01_08/
and at our Pick of the Week page:
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Also, an image by SOHO has been selected once more as Astronomy Picture
of the Day:
