Monday, October 1, 2012

Sun shoots off big flare towards Earth



Nasa has captured the image of a particularly wide Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) or flare, erupting from the Sun and spewing billions of tonnes of solar particles. Experimental Nasa research models estimate that the CME, travelling around 1,120 km per second, reached the Earth on Saturday. CMEs of these speeds are usually benign.

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