The webcam of the SOHO observatory shows coronal flashes on the Sun. The solar observatory SOHO is a spacecraft designed to observe the Sun, launched on December 2, 1995, and placed in the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point. Created by NASA in collaboration with ESA, the European Space Agency,
it began operating in May 1996. The spacecraft has 12 instruments for imaging and measuring solar radiation. One of them is LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph), a wide-angle spectrometric coronagraph with coronagraphs C1, C2, and C3. They allow the observation of coronal mass ejections and are also able to spot near-sun comets. The webcam displays the image from the LASCO C3 coronagraph of the SOHO observatory.