New Solar Telescope Debuts Dramatic Footage of the Sun Unleashing A Huge Spray of Charged Particles

The Sun’s growing prowess is on full display in a new video from space.

These are the stitched-together first images of CCOR-1, short for Compact Coronagraph. It sits atop a new weather satellite that launched this past summer. As the spacecraft is gearing up to monitor ferocious storms, CCOR-1 will stare at the Sun when the star transforms into its most volatile self.