NASA's Parker Solar Probe Captures Groundbreaking CME Footage

For the first time, the Parker Solar Probe provides direct observations of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities within a coronal mass ejection, offering new insights into solar storm dynamics.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured the first-ever footage of turbulent crescents of plasma within a coronal mass ejection.
The footage reveals Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a phenomenon previously unobserved in visible light within the solar atmosphere.
This discovery could enhance our understanding of coronal mass ejections and their impact on space weather around Earth.
The probe's unique orbit and the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument made these observations possible.
Further investigations by the probe are expected to provide more insights into the Sun's behavior and help predict solar storms.