Cloud of Solar Material Ejects from the Sun (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Cloud of Solar Material Ejects from the Sun

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This image was captured by ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on July 22, 2012 at 10:48 p.m. EDT. On the right side, a cloud of solar material ejects from the sun in one of the fastest coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever measured.

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Credit: ESA&NASA/SOHO

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