Beautiful, awesome coronal mass ejection caught on video

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This is amazing. NASA caught this coronal mass ejection on video. Here's a still photo:

New video provides an amazing view of a recent solar eruption captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the sun. Material can be seen bursting from the surface of the sun in an M-class coronal mass ejection.

What makes this footage particularly intriguing, said solar physicist Alex Young, is watching the collapse of material back into the sun.

"If you look closely," Young, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told the L.A. Times, "some of the material does not escape but instead gets captured by the sun's gravity and falls back."
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Source: LA Times

 

[zuben el genub]

Luckily, it was on the farside.

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[zuben el genub]

Now we have the real thing.

EARTH-DIRECTED X-FLARE AND CME:

Storm warning up:
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