Bright coronal mass ejection (CME) with an enormous erupting prominence as recorded by the LASCO C2 coronagraph onboard SOHO on 2 June 1998 at 13:31 UT. The prominence eruption is also visible in SOHO EIT images (cf. http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/comets/SOHO_sungrazers.html).

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