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Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA's groundbreaking new satellite

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shared the first images taken by its new space-based telescope.

CCOR-1 is mounted on NOAA 's newest geostationary satellite, GOES-19, which launched into orbit above Earth on June 25 .

The powerful solar telescope uses an occulting disk, visible as a dark blue circle in the images, to block the light from the sun.

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