Coronal mass ejections are giant, billion-ton bubbles of magnetic plasma that ... we're now seeing coronal loops expand and brighten over dimming regions after CME eruptions.

Due to the orientation of the flare, the CME was directed away from ... a polar crown filament (PCF) — a loop of magnetism that circles the sun's magnetic poles, according to Spaceweather.com.

This can occur when the sunspots are spaced far away from each other but are still linked by magnetic loops that ... at this time it appears the coronal mass ejection (CME) that resulted from ...