Here is an awesome movie of a dual eruption off the west limb very early this morning (4/20/2014). The event was associated with a Type II radio emission and generated a coronal mass ejection (CME) that was directed to the west and away from our plan
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km (865,374 mi), around 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (1.
