Satellite Observations (composite) of CME (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Satellite Observations (composite) of CME

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Combined images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (center) and the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (red and blue) show an impressive coronal mass ejection departing the far side of the sun on Sept. 1, 2014. This massive cloud raced away at about 5 million mph and likely accelerated particles that later produced gamma rays Fermi detected.

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NASA/SDO and NASA/ESA/SOHO

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