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Post date: Jun 8, 2011 2:46:21 PM
source: NASA techland.time.com
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).
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