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Data acquired May 23, 2010 720 x 480 JPEG
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A bright mass of charged particles loops from the Sun’s outer atmosphere during a solar storm on May 23, 2010. Taken two hours apart, the pair of images shows the stream of particles moving away from the Sun during a coronal mass ejection.
NASA images courtesy the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Published June 20, 2010 Data acquired May 23, 2010