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    • Sun spitting out a coronal mass ejection (CME) 2013 coronagraph
    Rights: ESA&NASA/SOHO Published 29 April 2014 Size: 36 KB Referencing Hub media

    The SOHO satellite (Solar Heliospheric Observatory) captured these images of the Sun spitting out a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 15 March 2013. This type of image is known as a coronagraph.

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