The Sun is Getting Restless

Click on the image, captured by the Solar Heliospheric Observatory, to see an animation of a coronal mass ejection from the sun on the morning of April 11, 2013. (Image: Goddard Space Flight Center.) If recent posts here at ImaGeo are any indication, I must be obsessed with the sun. Just yesterday, I posted an incredible image of the solar surface. And here I am, at it once again. But I didn't tell the sun to let loose billions of tons solar particles into space today, in what scientists call a coronal mass ejection, or CME. (Update 4/12: