<p>Material from the sun's surface stretches high into its atmosphere in a combined picture of an extremely bright coronal mass ejection seen on February 28 by <a id="eq:g" title="NASA's STEREO spacecraft" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html">NASA's STEREO spacecraft</a>.<br><br>Released on March 5, the new picture combines a STEREO view of the sun (orange) with a picture from the craft's coronograph, which blocks out the sun's glare to capture the fainter light of the sun's upper atmosphere, or corona (green).</p>
Solar Ejection
Material from the sun's surface stretches high into its atmosphere in a combined picture of an extremely bright coronal mass ejection seen on February 28 by NASA's STEREO spacecraft.
Released on March 5, the new picture combines a STEREO view of the sun (orange) with a picture from the craft's coronograph, which blocks out the sun's glare to capture the fainter light of the sun's upper atmosphere, or corona (green).
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