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gone with the wind. That's what happens to the vast structures of plasma and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections (CME) that are expelled from the sun into the heliosphere. Propelled by the solar wind, the structures spiral through the inner solar system, instigating major interplanetary particle events and geomagnetic storms. The combination of the outward motion of the plasma clouds and the rotation of the sun and its magnetic field often results in a pinwheel-shape ...