Monstrous Sunspot Rotates Toward Earth: Big Pic : Discovery News: "Nov. 5, 2011 -- There's a storm brewing on the sun's surface and it could unleash its magnetic fury on Earth within the next five days.
That ominous warning comes from solar scientists at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center who are tracking a huge group of sunspots that are slowly rotating to face our planet. As imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in Friday, this is the largest group of sunspots seen on the sun since 2005. The largest sunspot (pictured below) is 17-times the width of the Earth."
Now...if it's coming our way and we're a little unlucky, we could eventually forget what electricity is. Why? Well it could fry every grid and take out every satellite. So...stock up on candles if you really don't like being in the dark...for the rest of your life. A tad sensational? Hopefully it is, as I kinda like doing the blogie thing.
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That ominous warning comes from solar scientists at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center who are tracking a huge group of sunspots that are slowly rotating to face our planet. As imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in Friday, this is the largest group of sunspots seen on the sun since 2005. The largest sunspot (pictured below) is 17-times the width of the Earth."
Now...if it's coming our way and we're a little unlucky, we could eventually forget what electricity is. Why? Well it could fry every grid and take out every satellite. So...stock up on candles if you really don't like being in the dark...for the rest of your life. A tad sensational? Hopefully it is, as I kinda like doing the blogie thing.
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