One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does – look through the daily images of the sun from [...]
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Scientists unlock the secrets of exploding plasma clouds on the sun
The Sun sporadically expels trillions of tons of million-degree hydrogen gas in explosions called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Such clouds — an example is shown in Figure 1a — are enormous in size (spanning millions of miles) and are made up o…