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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 852559" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p>Sun Fires Solar Storm Directly at Earth</p><p>by Mike Wall, Senior Writer | SPACE.com – Tue, Aug 20, 2013</p><p></p><p>The sun has unleashed a powerful storm, sending an enormous cloud of superheated particles rocketing toward Earth.</p><p>The solar eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred at 9.24am Tuesday morning and blasted billions of tons of solar particles toward Earth at a mind-boggling speed of 2 million mph (3.3 million km/h).</p><p>"Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 570 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs," NASA officials wrote in an update today. NASA's twin Stereo spacecraft and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, captured photos of the solar storm from space. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/sun-fires-solar-storm-directly-earth-190056298.html#kR6BpGV" target="_blank">Full story</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topper, post: 852559, member: 186250"] Sun Fires Solar Storm Directly at Earth by Mike Wall, Senior Writer | SPACE.com – Tue, Aug 20, 2013 The sun has unleashed a powerful storm, sending an enormous cloud of superheated particles rocketing toward Earth. The solar eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred at 9.24am Tuesday morning and blasted billions of tons of solar particles toward Earth at a mind-boggling speed of 2 million mph (3.3 million km/h). "Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 570 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs," NASA officials wrote in an update today. NASA's twin Stereo spacecraft and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, captured photos of the solar storm from space. [URL='http://uk.news.yahoo.com/sun-fires-solar-storm-directly-earth-190056298.html#kR6BpGV']Full story[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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