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A coronal mass ejection (CME) blasted from the Sun (credit: NASA/ESA)

When the Sun erupts
from Solar Exterior

Vast clouds of magnetic field and charged particle plasma are blasted away from the Sun. We call these eruptions Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). We study the magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere during the lead-up to an eruption, to understand the conditions and physical proces...

Article Posted: 15-02-2007


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