Coronal Mass Ejection (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Coronal Mass Ejection

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This picture, captured on Jan. 8, 2002, by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, shows an enormous eruption of solar material, called a coronal mass ejection, spreading out into space.

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