SOHO orbit in L1
SOHO orbit in L1Image credit: NASA/H. Zell.

SOHO spacecraft

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft laboratory project of ESA and NASA, heading its instruments to the Sun, while orbiting the Sun-Earth Lagrange L1 point. Its mission is to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.

LASCO images

Latest Sun corona images from SOHO LASCO instrument:
(External links to LASCO images open in a new browser window.)

EIT images

Latest images of the Sun from SOHO EIT instrument:
(External links to EIT images open in a new browser window.)

CELIAS data plots

Latest L1 point data plots from SOHO CELIAS instruments:
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Sources and credits

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

GIF movies courtesy of the LASCO/NRL SOHO team, lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil

Proton Monitor data plots courtesy of CELIAS/MTOF experiment on the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, umtof.umd.edu/pm/