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\nA composite of space- and ground-based observations gathered at the time of the solar eclipse on 2 July 2019, combining imagery from the ESA\/NASA SOHO and ESA’s Proba-2 satellites with observations performed by the ESA-CESAR team in Chile.\n<\/p>\n
\nAt the centre, an extreme-ultraviolet image of the solar disc taken by the Royal Observatory of Belgium\u2019s SWAP instrument aboard ESA\u2019s Proba-2 mission shows the surface of the Sun (depicted in grey scale). The surrounding inner corona (also shown in grey scale) is revealed through ground-based observations obtained during the totality phase of the eclipse with a 10-cm refractor telescope (600mm focal lenght) at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The outer corona is depicted through the white-light LASCO-C2 (shown in red) and C3 (shown in blue) coronagraph instruments aboard the ESA\/NASA SOHO satellite.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe composite image provides an overall view of the Sun and its surrounding corona, with several streamers \u2013 elongated structures that extend from the solar surface far out into space. It shows the power of combining ground-based observations of the corona, which provide fine details of the inner corona and can only be obtained during a total eclipse, with the broader context yielded by coronographs like those on SOHO, which can observe the wider corona.\n<\/p>\n