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Keith Cooper

Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)

Solar Orbiter's view of the huge, 2 million kilometer-long helical streamer following a CME. .

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured on video by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, and could provide vital clues about how magnetic energy that drives the solar wind and giant eruptions on the sun is released.

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