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Why do coronal mass ejections take 3 days to reach Earth while light from the sun only takes a few minutes?
I was reading this article https://www.vox.com/science/2024/1/31/24047913/solar-maximum-cycle-explained-25-flares-coronal-mass-ejection about the poles of the sun currently flipping. One thing I didn’t understand was that if coronal mass ejections are radiation, why these waves(?) take so much longer to reach Earth than light waves?
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I was reading this article https://www.vox.com/science/2024/1/31/24047913/solar-maximum-cycle-explained-25-flares-coronal-mass-ejection about the poles of the sun currently flipping. One thing I didn’t understand was that if coronal mass ejections are radiation, why these waves(?) take so much longer to reach Earth than light waves?
#science
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