An eruptive prominence is not the same as a coronal mass ejection: it is probably much less powerful. The blob can still make it to Earth. This is an extreme ultraviolet image from the SOHO probe and so the color is false.

Sol Invictus: The unconquered Sun.

The energy source for almost all of the biosphere.

The Sun's diameter is about 100 = 10**2 times the Earth's diameter.

The Sun's mass is about 3*10**5 times the Earth's mass.

Credit: NASA.