video: The animation shows how small plasmoids develops into a large-scale coronal mass ejection, first imaged in extreme-ultraviolet by SDO and later in white light by SOHO. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 6th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Gou at University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China, and colleagues was titled, "The birth of a coronal mass ejection." view more
Credit: [Credit: Courtesy Tingyu Gou and Rui Liu, University of Science and Technology of China]