NASA's Sun probe just spotted something entirely new

Our Sun is vitally important to our continued existence, but it's also a volatile object with a spicy personality. Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are dramatic outbursts during which the Sun blasts charged particles into space at incredibly high speeds. These outbursts occur more often when the star is in one of its more active phases, but thanks to NASA's Parker Solar Probe, scientists were able to capture one happening completely out of the blue. As Space.com reports, scientists studying data...