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NOAA releases images of world’s first operational space-based coronagraph
Credit: NOAA Headquarters NOAA today shared the first images from Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope aboard its new GOES-19 satellite. CCOR-1, the world’s first operational space-based coronagraph, began observing the sun’s corona, the faint outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, on September 19, 2024. CCOR-1 monitors the corona and predicts coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A CME is a…
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