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Referred to as a “stealth storm,” a recent coronal mass ejection went undetected until it hit Earth. Stealth coronal mass ejections are more common after the Sun transitions from the solar maximum to ...

Astronomers have detected a coronal mass ejection racing away from a red dwarf star about 130 light-years away. Credit: Olena Shmahalo / Callingham et al. illustration Astronomers have captured the ...

An artist’s impression of an eruption from a large red star and its effect on a small planet near it: the small blue object with a faint, wispy trail, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. (Olena ...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a large-scale eruptive solar phenomenon in which magnetized plasma from the Sun’s corona is expelled into interplanetary space, typically associated with magnetic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Warped magnetic fields in the lower corona are what directly give rise to coronal mass ejections. When these stressed, unstable magnetic fields twist ...