Saturday January 21, 2012
Hotshots:
Coronal Mass Ejection From Sun Heads For Earth
A coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun is heading for Earth but don't panic just yet.
Whilst the CME was originally predicted to head straight for us, it now looks like we're in for a near miss.
From The Washington Post:
“At first glance, it was, ‘Oh my God, it’s at the center of the [sun’s] disk, it ought to go right to the Earth,’ ” Kunches said. But upon further review and “head-scratching” Thursday, NOAA’s space weather team calculated that most of the plasma blob should pass harmlessly over the top of our planet.
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