Sun Outer Image of a Coronal Mass Ejection (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Sun Outer Image of a Coronal Mass Ejection

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory provided the outer image of a coronal mass ejection on May 9, 2014. The IRIS spacecraft. The IRIS mission views the interface region that lies between the sun's photosphere and corona in unprecedented detail for researchers to study.

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NASA, Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory

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