This time the flux rope's connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride -- a classic CME.

"The inclusion of the flux rope mechanism helps us predict the amplitude of the magnetic field within a CME that reaches the Earth's position, and accurately predicts its arrival time," Shiota says.

Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of interplanetary propagation of multiple coronal mass ejections with internal magnetic flux rope (SUSANOO-CME). Space Weather, 2016; DOI: 10.1002/2015SW001308 ...

This time the flux rope's connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride -- a classic CME.

“We do not know which comes first,” the flux rope or the reconnection, says solar physicist Bernhard Kliem of the University of Potsdam in Germany. Kliem and his colleagues scrutinized a CME ...

As the CME’s blob of solar material bursts outward, the severed loops connect to one another, forming a flux rope. The debate boils down to whether ropes form before or during CMEs.

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured on video by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, and could ...

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When the magnetic energy grew too high, the rope was squeezed upward at speeds of up to 8.9 million mph (14.4 million km/h), and the subsequent reconnection drove the CME.

Magnetic flux ropes are highly twisted, current-carrying magnetic fields. They are crucial for the instability of plasma involved in solar eruptions, which may lead to adverse space weather ...