Coronal Mass Ejection (IMAGE)

Imperial College London

Coronal Mass Ejection

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On Jan. 7, 2014, the Sun's surface erupted with an unusually large explosion, called coronal mass ejection (CME), with NOAA releasing a significant false alarm geomagnetic storm at Earth.

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