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STEREO Spots a CME Soaring Into Space
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The enormous eruption of a solar prominence and resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) back on August 31 that was captured in amazing HD by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was also spotted by the Sun-flanking STEREO-B spacecraft, which observed the gigantic gout of solar material soaring away from the Sun.
This video shows the eruption as it passes across the fields of view of several of STEREO-B’s cameras over the course of 48 hours.
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Post tags: CME, NASA, prominence, STEREO, sun, video
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2012-09-10 16:11:29
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/97286/stereo-spots-a-cme-soaring-into-space/
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