Stunning video reveals the year-round dance of the sun’s corona
NASA’s PUNCH mission is showing a rarely seen aspect of our nearest star—the churning chaos of the solar corona
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We’re usually not supposed to look directly at the sun except during the glorious totality of a solar eclipse. But NASA’s PUNCH mission has been staring unblinkingly at our star since June 2025. PUNCH, short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, avoids frying its optics via a sunlight-blocking coronagraph that creates a permanent personal eclipse for its Narrow Field Imager. Now, in a video revealing PUNCH’s newly processed data, you can see a year of the sun’s dancing corona , too—without risking your retinas.
The solar corona is the topmost layer of the sun’s atmosphere.…
