One hour of a coronal mass ejection on Feb. 26-27, 2000 taken by EIT 195Å. A CME blasts into space a billion tons of particles travelling millions of miles an hour.  This particular  CME led to the "lightbulb- shaped" images seen by LASCO's C2 and C3 instruments on Feb. 27th and featured on our "Hot Shots" page.

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