Grab eclipse glasses: Large sunspots visible, produce solar flares - UPI.com
UPI reports: "We're heading into the bottom of solar minimum, when the sun tends to
have fewer sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections - large
expulsions of plasma, electrons and ions and magnetic fields. But
despite where we are in the sun's cycle, activity on the sun has
dramatically picked up over the past few days. On and off, these two
sunspots have been flaring and shooting out coronal mass ejections,
directed toward Earth. [...] We don't need to worry about this coronal
mass ejection being 'the big one' - a solar storm direct hit that could
cause widespread power blackouts and trigger as much as $2 trillion
worth of damage, according to a National Academy of Sciences study. But
this storm, on the back of this month's abnormally active space weather,
may wind up on the larger end of the scale, and will be the subject of
lots of analysis and research."
Comment: Did you keep your eclipse glasses?
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