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Twin CMEs? (December 7, 2007)


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Over a five-day stretch (Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2007) SOHO observed two remarkably similar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The first one blew out to the right from the Sun as a familiar arch- shaped, bulbous CME. Just four days later another, slightly larger, CME headed out to the right in just about the same direction and similarly shaped. With the Sun being near its minimum period of activity, it was a little surprising to see two CMEs in this short a span of time. With the brilliant Sun blocked out by the red occulting disk, we can tease out these features in the corona with our coronagraph instruments. The white circle represents the size of the Sun itself.


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