Bengaluru, Oct. 16 -- For the first time, scientific observations of the same solar eruptions by India's Aditya-L1 mission and Europe's Proba-3 have been jointly analyzed and published. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, combined observations from the VELC payload onboard Aditya-L1 and the ASPIICS payload onboard Proba-3 to study coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They measured the mass, density, and energetics of these CMEs in the region very close to the Sun. The study has been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

CMEs are large eruptions from the Sun in which huge amounts of magnetized plasma are thrown out into interplanetary space. When such eruptions are directed towards Earth, they can d...