ScienceCasts: Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Narrowly Misses Earth
![ScienceCasts: Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Narrowly Misses Earth](https://media2.spaceref.com/news/2014/sun_massive_coronal_mass_ejection_2012_043014_945.jpg)
Massive CME.
NASA
Two years ago, an intense solar storm, a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun, narrowly missed Earth. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still be picking up the pieces.