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For the first time, scientists have a three-dimensional 
view of one of the most powerful and mysterious events in our solar system.

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Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, are huge solar eruptions that 
hurl billions of tons of electrified gas out into space.

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When Earth happens to be in the path of a 
CME, our power systems, radio communications and satellites 
can be affected.

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NASA-funded scientists found a new way to analyze two-
dimensional images from the Solar and Heliospheric 
Observatory spacecraft,

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also called SOHO.

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According to scientists, the new 3-D view will help explain 
how CMEs are born and how they are blasted away 
from the Sun.

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With new information gleaned from 3-D imagery, it may 
be easier to predict when a massive solar explosion 
will brush our planet --

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and how severe the encounter might be.

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