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PRBuzz · 03-07-2012, 06:22 AM

Biggest one yet this solar cycle last evening! Put on your Al foil hats to protect against the mass ejection.

PhotoBlog - Sun blasts out an X-treme flare

The sun unleashed one of the biggest flares ever seen during its current activity cycle late Tuesday — an X5.4-class outburst strong enough to trigger a radio blackout. This extreme-ultraviolet image of the sun's disk, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the flare shining like a bright flame.
SpaceWeather.com reports that the eruption, recorded at 7:28 p.m. ET, hurled a coronal mass ejection into space. Is the storm of electrically charged particles heading toward us? "Our best guess is 'probably yes, but not directly toward Earth,'" SpaceWeather.com's Tony Phillips writes. A glancing blow could spark heightened auroras on March 8 or 9.

03-07-2012, 06:22 AM	#11
PRBuzz BuzzLuck iTrader: (0) Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brockton Posts: 6,414	X5.4 Flare Biggest one yet this solar cycle last evening! Put on your Al foil hats to protect against the mass ejection. PhotoBlog - Sun blasts out an X-treme flare The sun unleashed one of the biggest flares ever seen during its current activity cycle late Tuesday — an X5.4-class outburst strong enough to trigger a radio blackout. This extreme-ultraviolet image of the sun's disk, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the flare shining like a bright flame. SpaceWeather.com reports that the eruption, recorded at 7:28 p.m. ET, hurled a coronal mass ejection into space. Is the storm of electrically charged particles heading toward us? "Our best guess is 'probably yes, but not directly toward Earth,'" SpaceWeather.com's Tony Phillips writes. A glancing blow could spark heightened auroras on March 8 or 9.
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