A NEW LOOK AT THE SUN --- This image of 1-million degree Celsius gas in
the Sun's thin, outer atmosphere (corona) was taken by the Extreme
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) in the Fe IX/X emission lines at
171 A. Every feature in the image traces magnetic field structures.
Because of the high quality instrument, we can see more suttle and
detail magnetic features than ever before. This image is the first time
we have been able to get such images except during five-minute rocket
flights. Because of SOHO's view of the Sun, science researchers have
been able to make movies that show the dynamic every changing nature of
the "quiet Sun." SOHO is presently in a halo orbit around a point known
as the "L1 Lagrangian point" approximately 930,000 miles (1.5 million
kilometers) from Earth, where gravitational forces of the Earth and Sun
balance one another.