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Comparing Cme's Or Coronal Mass Ejections

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CME:
CME’s, or Coronal Mass Ejections, is when coronal material is ejected into space at high speeds, sometimes in the direction of Earth. They are sometimes confused with Solar Flares but they are not actually the same. “The most obvious difference between a solar flare and a CME is the spatial scale on which they occur.” This stated in the Coronal Weather Report, is what a CME is and the difference between it and a solar flare.

The Northern Lights are “collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere.” This stated at http://www.northernlightscentre.ca/northernlights.html . Most people know the Northern Lights as those bright dancing lights of the aurora, but they are actually what I stated
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