Sun Blasts Another CME At Earth and Mars 66
astroengine writes "On Friday, the sun hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) at our planet that sparked a strong geomagnetic storm and beautiful aurorae at high latitudes. Late on Sunday (EST), the sun unleashed yet another Earth-bound CME after an M9 flare erupted over a particularly active sunspot region — the CME is expected to hit Earth on Tuesday and Mars on Wednesday. This series of flares and CMEs have ignited the strongest period of solar storms since 2005, according to an NOAA space weather advisory."
Re:First Arctic fresh water, now this (Score:2, Insightful)
Only on Slashdot does an AC get modded Informative for pointing out that the LHC is in Europe.
Well, at least American know roughly where is Europe. Imagine, if it would have pointed out that the LHC is at the frontier France+Swiss...
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I solely acknowledge that this post smells like "off topic"
WTF /.? (Score:4, Insightful)
45 comments, perhaps 3 of which that aren't jokes or AC trolls. /. used to be a place where science could be discussed intelligently...
I guess I'll spend my time at reddit r/askscience instead!
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