Storm of Solar Flares to Strike Earth Tonight – Ready Foil Hat
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The Sun’s surface erupted early Sunday morning, blasting tons of plasma into interplanetary space — directly towards the Earth. That wall of ionized atoms should hit the planet tonight, say scientists, creating a geomagnetic storm and a spectacular light show and possibly threatening satellites in orbit. The last solar maximum occurred in 2001. The most recent solar eruption is one of the first signs that the sun is waking up!
“This eruption is directed right at us and is expected to get here early in the day on Aug. 4th,” said Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “It’s the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time.”
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