Tuesday, January 24, 2012

CME

CME. That's a nice three letter acronym. Sounds effin' harmless! Of course what it actually stands for is Coronal Mass Ejection, which is a sort of sciency way of saying the sun is puking its guts out. Didn't the Mayans say something about that? Here's what it looks like:



Nice! I'm sure it is nothing to worry about though. Right. If you want to feel good about massive amounts of particles bombarding the earth you can read this. I'm sure you're feeling better already.
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  1. Steve MartinJanuary 25, 2012 at 6:39 PM

    The storm does rank as the biggest space radiation event in about seven years, Spence said.

    The flare erupted from sunspot 1402, a region near the meridian of the sun that has been active for a while now, Zheng said. The powerful solar storm could be signaling that the sun is waking up after an extended period of relative dormancy.

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