Video: "Awesome Star" Ejects Billions Of Particles At Superfast Speed

Since being shared about 14 hours ago, the post by NASA has already clocked more than three million views.

Stunning visuals of the sun's surface belching a coronal mass ejection or CME held internet users spellbound after NASA shared a video on Instagram. Since being shared about 14 hours ago, the post has already clocked more than three million views, which are sure to increase as the stunning visuals mesmerize space enthusiasts. In the video, the boiling surface of the sun, the "awesome star" as NASA called it in the caption of the post, can be seen erupting waves of solar plasma which results in the sun shooting billions of particles into space at the speed of about 1 million miles per hour. The video shows a CME seen in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in 2013.