The Story of the Solar System: The Sun

A beautiful prominence eruption producing a coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on April 16, 2012. Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

May 9, 2018 at 12:00 pm

Animation by Mark Garlick.

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