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Harry Baker

Photographers capture the exact moment a gargantuan storm blasts out of the sun during a total solar eclipse

A coronal mass ejection blasts out of the sun in the midst of a total solar eclipse over Australia on Apr. 20, 2023 (Image credit: Petr Horálek, Josef Kujal, Milan Hlaváč)

A group of astrophotographers captured a breathtaking image of the recent "hybrid solar eclipse," which was visible in the skies above Australia last month. 

The image mainly shows off the ghostly filaments of the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, but it also caught a faint glimpse of an eruption of magnetized plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), exploding away from the sun. 

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