A coronal mass ejection (CME) occurs when the sun gets caught in a powerful magnetic field, and it can be very harmful to satellites and the Earth.
Coronal Mass Ejections are more famous than the flares and sunspots that accompany them, and they’re also what travelers in the inner Solar System need to watch out for.
Most CMEs miss the Earth, but on September 5, 2022, a particularly powerful one approaches the far side of the sun.
The probe has been collecting data since then, and scientists have now released a study of what happened.
The study shows that Parker has confirmed a 20-year-old theory that CME’s collect dust as they go, ionizing it and pushing it away from the Sun.
This kind of cleaning of the dust is left behind by comets as the ice holding them together boils away, and from collisions between asteroids. .
The Parker Solar Probe has repeatedly broken records for the fastest
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