NASA explains the two major kinds of eruptions that happen on the Sun - TweakTown

NASA has dropped a video that explains the difference between solar flares and coronal mass ejections, two eruptions from the Sun.

The sun experiences many different types of eruptions, but two major types of eruptions occur on the sun's surface: solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME). NASA has taken to its blog and to t… [+1948 chars]

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