China to build the world's largest telescope array to study explosions on the Sun - Interesting Engineering

The new telescope array is part of a wider project aimed at investigating dangerous solar eruptions that could knock out global internet.

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are massive expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's surface, the corona. They send highly-charged particles in waves out towards the outer Solar System. … [+1174 chars]

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