The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured this movie of the sun's coronal mass ejection (CME) on the evening of March 6, 2012. The extremely fast and energetic solar particles associated with the solar flare caused the "noise" at the end of the movie.
Credit: SOHO/ESA&NASA
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