These three images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite taken over two hours by the LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) C2 instrument show a rapidly expanding coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting billions of tons of particles out from the Sun at over a million kilometers per hour. This is just one of a number of CMEs that occurred during the past week. The Sun, blocked by an occulting disk, is represented by the white circle. The breadth of view of the C2