NASA spacecraft flies right through sun explosion, captures footage


A well-fortified NASA spacecraft flew through, and survived, an immense explosion from the sun.
Scientists recently released rare footage of this solar event, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is the eruption of a mass of super hot gas (plasma). "It's like scooping up a piece of the sun and ejecting it into space," Mark Miesch, a scientist with the National…
This story appeared on mashable.com, 2023-09-19.