Coronal mass ejection
A coronal mass ejection, abbreviated CME, was an eruption of magnetized plasma from a stars corona into the solar wind. The shock waves caused by a CME created a proton storm. In 3189, Engineer Jett Reno likened this astronomical phenomenon to a burp for a star.

In that year, a coronal mass ejection from a nearby star hit the . The CME was accompanied by a bright light, which Doctor Attis, the sole survivor from the starship, reported seeing before the ship was impacted by a radioactive proton storm. ()

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Astronomical phenomena