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Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th!!!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 51311176:MV8yNTY5NjY5XzQ0NzA4NDY0Xzc0M0Y1QkJF] [b]super-hot magnetic plasma erupted[/b] this week in an explosive solar storm captured on video by NASA spacecraft. The huge plasma tendril, known as a solar filament, erupted on Wednesday (June 4), blowing part of itself out into space in what astronomers call a coronal mass ejection, or CME. NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded video of the solar filament eruption while the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory tracked the subsequent CME. http://www.space.com/26157-giant-sun-filament-solar-eruption-video.html [/quote]
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Colleen Curry
By Colleen Curry
Jun 11, 2014 4:34pm
HT solar flare jtm 140611 16x9 608 Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th
A solar flare erupts on the surface of the sun, June 10, 2014. (Goddard/SDO/NASA)
The sun has had three major solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications when they struck
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