On August 16th, watchful photographer Rogerio Marcon of Sao Paulo, Brazil, caught sunspot 904 in mid-eruption

This is the same blast that propelled the incoming CME toward Earth. Amazingly, many other observers caught it, too. Click on the links below.
More images: from Douglas McLean and Jack Newton of Osoyoos, British Columbia; from Gary Palmer of Los Angeles, California; from John Stetson of Falmouth, Maine; from Günter Kleinschuster of Feldbach, Austria.

No going back. Forward motion. The sunspot ejection of coronal thermonuclear reaction is a powerful energy phenomonon. Wtch for the quantum effects - however miniscule they may seem - because this is the quintessential essence of the reality of the unseen.