NASA spacecraft flies right through sun explosion, captures footage

A well-fortified NASA spacecraft flew through, and survived, an immense explosion from the sun. Scientists recently released rare footage of this solar event, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is the eruption of a mass of super hot gas (plasma). "It's like scooping up a piece of the sun and ejecting it into space," Mark Miesch, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center, told Mashable earlier this year. This CME occurred in …