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Sun: huge coronal mass ejection

by

Nasa/ESA/Soho/Lasco/Novapix

Reference

a-sol02-02001

Date

2006-11-11

Starting at about 23:00 UT on 26 February 2000, a large filament eruption could be seen in images from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on the SOHO spacecraft. About an hour later, the filament eruption could be seen as a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) in the images from the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO).