Published on November 19, 2017
Solar scientists have long known that at the heart of the great explosions of solar material that shoot off the sun — known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs â lies a twisted kink of magnetic fields known as a flux rope. But no one has known when or where they form. Now, for the first time, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory as captured a flux rope in the very act of formation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
