via http://ift.tt/1o8SnBP These GIF movies are courtesy of the LASCO/NRL SOHO team. A HUGE coronal mass ejection burst off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014. The giant sheet of solar material erupting was the first CME seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. The field of view seen here is about five Earth's wide and about seven and a half Earth's tall.
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