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Introduction

The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) is part of the remote sensing instrument package of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. EUI aims at improving scientific understanding of the structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, globally as well as at high resolution, and from high solar latitude perspectives. EUI consists of 3 telescopes that are optimized to image in Lyman-α and EUV (17.4 nm, 30.4 nm) to provide a coverage from chromosphere up to corona. 

EUI News

News

The EUI team has become millionaires!

September 2025. The space instrument EUI onboard the spacecraft Solar Orbiter, took its millionth solar picture. Congratulations!

What is a CoSEE-Cat?

CoSEE-Cat is not an animal lounging on your couch but what is it then?

A Blizzard of Solar Campfires

STCE researchers used a sophisticated wavelet-based algorithm to automatically detect and characterize thousands of transient EUV brightenings, often called campfires, in the HRIEUV data obtained at the closest-perihelion of Solar Orbiter.

Tiny Solar Bursts Show Pulses Like Big Flares

New findings from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal that even the tiniest bursts of activity from the Sun may behave like their larger counterparts.

First view of the solar poles with EUI

Thanks to a push from planet Venus earlier this year, the orbit of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft was tilted.  A century ago mankind raced to explore the poles of the Earth, now Solar Orbiter made its way to the poles of the Sun. For the very first time the solar poles have been imaged!

Power play with two space telescopes

Do you remember the highest resolution image of the Sun ever made? It dates from March 2022 and showed mesmerising details of the solar atmosphere. We decided to do it again. And now we even combined images from two telescopes! 

5 years of EUI magic

May 12, 2020 - The 3 telescopes of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter opened their doors to capture images of the Sun.

Solar Orbiter Workshop at the SIDC

On 8, 9 and 10 April 2025, the SIDC welcomed 85 leading solar physicists, in person and online, to participate in an international workshop on the future of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission.