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Biggest Solar Storm in Years

This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun as it unleashed an X5.4-class solar flare at 7:04 p.m. EST on March 6, 2012 (0002 March 7 GMT). The flare appears as the bright spot in the upper left. (CREDIT: NASA/SDO)

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March 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, NASA, Nature, News, Solar Flares, Solar Flares/CME | Leave a comment

Solar storm collides with Earth’s magnetic field

This is a follow-up to the post yesterday about the CME that was coming our way from the Sun.  It did hit us, and I have not heard about any major negative effects.  There were some great Aurora Borealis lights (see embedded video from Fox [more]

January 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: 2012+related, Coronal Mass Ejection, Doomsday, NASA, News, Solar Flares, Solar Flares/CME, Videos | 6 comments

RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS – M9-class solar flare

RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: Solar protons accelerated by this morning’s M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. [more]

January 23rd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: 2012+related, All Posts, NASA, News, Solar Flares, Solar Flares/CME | Leave a comment

NASA issues new warning to prepare for “Once in a lifetime” Solar Storm

NASA’s latest solar storm warning 2012-2013 [more]

December 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: 2012+related, All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, NASA, News, Solar Flares/CME | 11 comments