The Biggest Explosion happened on Sun, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe captured Historical images
The Solar Orbiter probe of the European Space Agency (ESA) filmed a huge explosion in the Sun. According to ESA, this is the largest explosion ever filmed with a full-blown solar disc. Explosion happened in the Sun near Earth and spread millions of miles across space. The blast took place on February 15 and was captured with Solar Orbiter's 'Full Sun Imager' camera.
FSI is designed to view a full solar disk during its orbit around the sun. On March 26, Solar Orbiter's investigation will take place in the vicinity of the Sun. At this point its distance will be less than 0.3 times the distance of the Sun from Earth. During this time, most of the Sun will be caught on a telescope. At present, there are numerous spacecraft orbiting the Sun, bringing spectacular images of the Sun to Earth from a distance of 3.5 million miles.
Why Parker Probe is Different from other Orbiters?
Other space telescopes such as the ESA and NASA's SOHO satellite also capture solar activity with a camera. But they are either too close to the Sun or too far away, because their cameras cannot take a full disc image of the Sun. That is why it is the largest ever seen explosion captured in one frame with a single solar-powered disk.
Scientists say it has opened up new opportunities for the first time about the thing that how such events are connected to the solar disk. Other space missions similar to NASA's Parker Solar Probe also saw this event. Next week, Solar Orbiter and the Parker Solar Probe will take a look at the Parker's perihelion passage. The perihelion passage is the date and time when an object orbits the Sun from a distance.