The big orange

EUROPE'S SOLAR heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has returned spectacular images of the Sun from its unique vantage point in solar orbit, 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth, where the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun are equal. The Matra Marconi Space-built SOHO was launched in December 1995, and the ...

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