# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/By-kX5UgPaK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15342907-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/5478bcdc80.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-06-21T15:56:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

This artist's illustration depicts a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which involves a large-scale expulsion of material, and have frequently been observed on our Sun. A new study using the Chandra X-ray Observatory detected a CME from a star other than our own for the first time, providing a novel insight into these powerful phenomena. As the name implies these events occur in the corona, which is the outer atmosphere of a star.

Learn more about the sun at www.nasa.gov/sun. And happy #summersolstice2019! ☀️ Artist concept credit: NASA/CXC/INAF/Argiroffi, C. et al./S. Wiessinger

#nasa #sun #solarsystem #heliophysics #corona #starstuff #solarflare #chandra

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## Tags

solarsystem, heliophysics, sun, starstuff, corona, solarflare, nasa, summersolstice2019, chandra

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