“It’s the first time we have detected one,” says Cyril Tasse of the Paris Observatory, referring to a coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting from any star other than the Sun. Caught in unprecedented ...

On July 15, a colossal filament erupted from the sun's northeastern limb, dramatically reshaping part of our star's surface, albeit briefly, and unleashing a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunspot AR4618 erupted with an M4.4-class solar flare causing a coronal mass ejection (CME) that may give Earth a glancing blow.

The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere. Reading time 1 minute On July 15, a solar filament erupted from the Sun’s upper left ...