UPDATE: the comet desintegrated before it reached the SWAP field-of-view.
A sungrazer comet is racing towards its close encouter with the solar corona. As part of a massive, world-wide campaign to study the comet, the SWAP imager will attempt to capture images of the comet as it passes the sun. If SWAP is able to see the comet, the observations could yield important information both about comets, the solar corona, and the sun's complex magnetic field.
A new data product reflects the progress that the LYRA team has made to discern the different instrumental degradation of quiet-Sun, active-region, and flare signals, and how to correct the data accordingly. The LYRA team wants to present this 15-year daily dataset to the solar community, in order to enable a comparison with various solar indicators, and to study the solar cycle.
On Sunday, September 21, 2025, PROBA2 once again had the opportunity to observe an annular eclipse of the Sun. This marks the 36th eclipse recorded by the spacecraft since its launch in 2009.
The PROBA-2 team is preparing for the next eclipse. Upcoming March 29, the solar instruments onboard will observe their 
On October 3, the Sun unleashed its most powerful eruption since 2017: a solar flare classified as X9.0 on the GOES scale, accompanied by a significant coronal mass ejection. We also observed a signal related to this flare in the Herzberg channel which is extremely rare.
After all the excitement surrounding the Great American Eclipse earlier this year, it is easy to forget that another one of these mesmerising was scheduled for the fall. The PROBA2 team prepared for special observations on October 2 when the instruments onboard had a first row seat of the eclipse.
Once more, the solar physics team of the Royal Observatory of Belgium invites external researchers to join in the data exploitation of its space telescopes on the PROBA2 microsatellite (SWAP, LYRA) and on Solar Orbiter (EUI).
April 8, 2024. A date that has been highlighted in many calendars for months. It is the day of the Great American Eclipse, as it is now called. A total eclipse during which the Moon’s shadow will cover large parts of Mexico, the USA and Canada. In fact, weather permitting, all of Noth America will witness at least a partial eclipse on that day.
