A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is a massive, explosive burst of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's upper atmosphere, or corona, that travels into space at high speeds.
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2024/09/29 12:15 UTC: The first public image from CCOR-1 shows a clearly defined CME emerging from the east limb (left side) of the Sun with small and large streamers. (NOAA/NESDIS, released on October 22, 2024)
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2024/10/26 08:15 UTC: A large CME is visible in the lower left (southeast) part of the image, partially obscured by the shadow of the instrument pylon. (Nathan Miles, NOAA/SWPC/CU CIRES)
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2024/10/27 18:00 UTC: A CME at the upper left (northeast) part of the image with streamers emitted from other parts of the sun. At the lower right, a sungrazer comet moves towards the Sun. (Nathan Miles, NOAA/SWPC/CU CIRES)
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2024/12/15 07:45 UTC: The right side of the image includes a large CME. (Nathan Miles, NOAA/SWPC/CU CIRES)
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2024/09/29 12:30 UTC: This is the same first public image by CCOR-1 showing a limb CME emerging from the eastern (left) side of the Sun (NOAA/NESDIS, released on October 22, 2024), but now reprocessed with SWPC's new, darker colormap deployed in…
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2025/01/24 16:30 UTC: A large CME is visible at the lower left (southeast) part of the image. (Nathan Miles, NOAA/SWPC/CU CIRES)
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2024/10/26 08:30 UTC: Nice partial halo CME slightly skewed towards the south-east quadrant. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/10/09 03:30 UTC: Amazing halo CME with the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas in the field of view. The CME affected the space weather at Earth a couple of days later. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/10/28 17:30 UTC: Distorted ear-shaped CME in the south-west quadrant. The distortion is probably due to the interaction of the CME front with a higher speed solar wind region. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/10/29 17:30 UTC: Kind of a distorted CME erupting in the south-west quadrant, showing nice internal features. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/11/07 09:15 UTC: CME showing nice fine details of filament material associated with the eruption. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/11/09 18:00 UTC: Typical three-part flux rope CME seen edge on, erupting in the south-east quadrant. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/12/15 08:15 UTC: Typical three-part flux rope CME that seemed to be seen face on, erupting towards the south-west quadrant. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2024/12/19 20:00 UTC: Partial halo CME, going mainly towards the west side. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)
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2025/01/24 17:00 UTC: CME erupting in the south-east quadrant, with a typical flux rope shape. (Arnaud Thernisien, NRL)