The SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory displays the solar corona. 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 its operations in May 1996.
The spacecraft is equipped with 12 instruments for imaging and measuring solar radiation. One of them is the wide-angle spectrometric coronagraph LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) with coronagraphs C1, C2, and C3, allowing for the observation of coronal mass ejections and the solar corona. A camera shows the image from the LASCO C2 coronagraph of the SOHO solar observatory.