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The brightness in the lower right corner represent a cloud of solar material bursting off the sun in a coronal mass ejection on June 11, 2013.

NASA Spacecraft Detect a Mars-Directed CME

On June 11, 2013, at 2 p.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar ...

M5.9 class flare appears on the lower right of the sun on June 7, 2013.

The Sun Emits an M5.9 Solar Flare

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures the sun emitting a M5.9 class, a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 6:49pm on June 7, 2013.

This images show a coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting into space on May 26, 2013.

Sun Releases Slow CME

On May 26, 2013 at 3:24 p.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a non-Earth directed CME traveling at 550 miles per second.

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on the right side of the sun on May 22, 2013.

NASA's SDO Observes Mid-level Solar Flare

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M7 class, on the morning of May 22, 2013.

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SOHO Captures Coronal Mass Ejection

The brightness in the lower right corner represent a cloud of solar material bursting off the sun in a coronal mass ejection on June 11, 2013.
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SOHO Sees CME

This images show a coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting into space on May 26, 2013.
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Two CMEs Associated with M7 Solar Flare

This image, captured at 11:06 a.m. EDT on May 22, 2013, from the SOHO shows the conjunction of two coronal mass ejections streaming away from the sun.
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Looking Along a Filament

SDO peered down the length of a long solar filament as it rotated over the Sun's edge June 3 to June 4, 2013.
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