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Plasma corkscrews form on sun during stellar eruption
Science News, September 2014A twist on the sun is throwing solar scientists for a loop. For the first time, researchers have watched the sun’s magnetic field force plasma into a spring-shaped curl during a powerful solar eruption known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME.