Fallout from huge solar flare to sideswipe Earth

By Mike WallSpace.comA huge explosion on the sun will deal Earth a glancing blow Friday but should not pose a threat to the planet, scientists say.The sun storm erupted late Tuesday during a powerful solar flare — the fourth unleashed by a single sunspot in just 48 hours — and hurled a massive cloud of charged particles out into space at millions of miles an hour.Such eruptions — known as coronal ...

 
 
 
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