PICK OF THE WEEK
Pick of The Week
Yet another CME (April 1, 2004)
Hi-res TIF image (1.2M)
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The Sun is not going quietly into its period of solar minimum yet. A
bulbous coronal mass ejection (CME) with a dense center (seen as white)
exploded out from the Sun on March 29, 2004. This series shows a cloud
of particles heading to the edge of the field of view of the C2
coronagraph in just over two hours. CMEs are solar storms that propel
billions of tons of material at millions of miles per hour. They also
carry magnetic field away from the Sun, which can interact with the
Earth's magnetosphere if directed our way and generate aurora if
conditions are right.
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