BangaloreIndia’s Aditya-L1 and Europe’s Proba-3 imaged one solar eruption together.
Each blast hurls a billion tonnes into space, and earlier probes missed its early growth.
Proba-3 measured the eruption’s shape and mass, while Aditya-L1 read gas at about 2 million degrees.
The team has so far analysed only 2 eruptions, from 14 and 16 September 2025.
How each outlet framed it
- Nature
- explains how Proba-3 flew 150 m from Aditya-L1 to cast an artificial eclipse, with Aditya-L1 measuring CME gas at two million degrees
Sources: Nature