The little black and white boxes that blip into view are telemetry blocks вЂ“ an artifact from compressing the image and sending it back down to Earth. The missing spot in the image on the far right is an overexposed area where light from the spacecraft solar array is reflected into SoloHIвЂ™s view. This video uses difference images, created by subtracting the pixels of the previous image from the current image to highlight changes.

The first coronal mass ejection, or CME, observed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) appears as a sudden gust of white (the dense front from the CME) that expands into the solar wind. It used one of its four detectors at less than 15 per cent of its normal cadence to reduce the amount of data acquired. SoloHI observes the solar wind, dust, and cosmic rays that fill the space between the Sun and the planets. The CME was captured by NASAвЂ™s instrument, the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), that is onboard the spacecraft. As it hurled past the Sun and back to the cooler zones of space, the orbiter caught video footage of two CMEs. The orbiter reached closer to the Sun this year, on February 10, when it flew within 48 million miles (77 million kilometers) of the star-just half the distance between the Sun and Earth. These eruptions, also known as coronal mass ejections (CME), were observed by the Solar Orbiter on February 12, NASA said in a statement. If these eruptions on the Sun's surface are big enough, they can cause billions of tons of plasma and electrically charged particles to dash towards Earth. Having continued its exploration efforts, NASA and European Space AgencyвЂ™s spacecraft has now captured the first solar eruption on the Sun's surface. Last June, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft rocketing around the Sun discovered something new about our hot-headed star: its surface is covered in miniature solar flares, or otherwise known as вЂњcampfiresвЂќ to the scientists behind the spacecraft.