Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 21:21
in Astronomy & Space
Imagine a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. That's exactly what happened on April 9, 2008, when a coronal mass ejection or "CME" pirouetted over the sun's limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft.