Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO)

The NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission consists of two identical spacecraft which were placed in two different orbits around the Sun. STEREO Ahead was placed slightly closer to the Sun than Earth and STEREO Behind slightly further away than Earth. This causes them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind Earth's orbit and thus exposing the farside of the Sun. On the site you will find data from the SECCHI instrument: the extreme ultraviolet imager (EUVI) camera showing the Sun in the 195 Ångström wavelength and two white-light coronagraphs: COR1 and COR2.

Communications with STEREO Behind were lost on October 1, 2014, due to multiple hardware anomalies affecting control of the spacecraft orientation. There is currently no real-time data available from STEREO Behind. Should communications be reestablished in the future we will feature any data coming from STEREO Behind on this page.

Where are STEREO A and B right now?

Where are STEREO A and B right now?

Info
Courtesy of STEREO (NASA)

Latest news

Support SpaceWeatherLive.com!

A lot of people come to SpaceWeatherLive to follow the Sun's activity or if there is aurora to be seen, but with more traffic comes higher server costs. Consider a donation if you enjoy SpaceWeatherLive so we can keep the website online!

23%
Support SpaceWeatherLive with our merchandise
Check out our merchandise

Latest alerts

Get instant alerts!

Space weather facts

Last X-flare2024/02/22X6.3
Last M-flare2024/03/18M6.6
Last geomagnetic storm2024/03/03Kp6- (G2)
Spotless days
Last spotless day2022/06/08
Monthly mean Sunspot Number
February 2024124.7 +1.7

This day in history*

Solar flares
12003M5.34
22003M2.33
32000M2.29
42003M2.23
52003M2
ApG
1200137G3
2200638G2
3200219G1
4201526G1
5200511G1
*since 1994

Social networks