Incoming ‘Cannibal CME’ From Solar Eruptions May Make Bright, Widespread Aurora Visible This Week - Forbes

The latest forecast from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has the twin CMEs arriving at our planet on August 18.

This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as ... [+] it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per ho… [+2780 chars]

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