Coronal Mass Ejection on Sept. 27, 2012 (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Coronal Mass Ejection on Sept. 27, 2012

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NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured this image of a particularly wide coronal mass ejection (CME) that erupted from the sun at 10:23 p.m. EDT on Sept. 27, 2012. The leading edge of the CME appears to wrap around over half of the entire sun as it moves out into space.

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