On 8/31/2012 solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, erupted out into space. The coronal mass ejection traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear. [4096 x 4096]

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