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A year of the sun’s restless corona, captured in stunning video
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A year of the sun’s restless corona, captured in stunning video

So: NASA’s PUNCH mission has turned a year of observations into a remarkable video of the sun’s constantly shifting corona. Its four spacecraft use a coronagraph to block direct sunlight, revealing glowing particles tracing the sun’s magnetic fields and bursts of solar material. Clever image processing removed distracting light reflected from Earth, rescuing the delicate signal and making the year’s footage visible. The result offers a lively new view of our star, with passing planets, stars and even a comet sharing the scene.
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