Solar storm warning may disrupt mobile cellphones June 8th-9th

Spectacular Solar Flare Impresses,

May Disrupt GPS and Power Grids

The sun pitched a pretty impressive solar fit yesterday at 1:41 a.m. ET—its biggest in two years—and our own Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) grabbed a bunch of stunning snaps. They show the sun spitting up a medium-sized flare and a small radiation storm, culminating in a dazzling coronal mass ejection or CME (the awe-inspiring curtain of fire in the shot below) issuing from a complex of sunspots.

June 8th (tonight, 6 p.m.) through June 9th

NASA says it should strike during the early evening June 8th (tonight, around 6 p.m.) through June 9th (for the record, we're about 93 million miles from the Sun).