This image of the Sun was taken with NASA's Stereo's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager. NASA's Stereo orbiters are studying the Sun as this BBC article describes.
The Stereo orbiters, which are nearing their final positions, will study violent solar eruptions known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).
CMEs hurl energetic particles at Earth that can disrupt power grids and satellite communications.
Stereo will give scientists information they need to forecast "space weather".
The new panoramic views, which stretch from the Sun to the Earth, are created by combining images from a suite of telescopes onboard the two spacecraft. Their data will allow scientists to track "solar fronts".
