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Solar storm 2012: Earth bracing for massive solar storm
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Earth is bracing for the largest solar storm in five years as gaseous particles from the sun are due to reach the planet sometime Thursday morning, possibly disrupting power grids, GPS and airline flights.
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What does the Sun sound like? The weird music of solar storms
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Artists have turned the Sun's raging magnetic outbursts into a hallucinogenic movie of twirling spirals and leaping mountains.
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Virginia man sees immense sunspots from backyard (PHOTO)
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What's the largest active region on the Sun since 2005 look like? One Stafford astronomer turned his telescope to the heavens to find out.
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Comet smashes into the sun; massive explosion ensues (VIDEO)
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A comet that dived into the sun on Oct. 1 was followed by a spectacular coronal mass ejection. Is there a link between the two events?
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WATCH: First-ever space view of a solar storm hitting Earth
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NASA has observed a giant plasma cloud colliding with our planet from space, a historic first. What might this mean for space-weather forecasting?
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Largest X-class flare of the solar cycle blasts from Sun (VIDEO)
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Early on Aug. 9, 2011, the sun lashed out with its largest solar flare since 2006. Want to see what this X6.9-class fire beast looked like?
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Powerful solar flares bedevil the earth with plasma on Friday
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Three days, three flares: Airlines, power-grid operators and Aurora Borealis fanatics are on high alert today as successive waves of solar particles pound the planet.
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Geomagnetic storms expected Thursday after solar flare (VIDEO)
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Geomagnetic storms in the high latitudes are in the forecast for Thursday after a long-lasting flare erupted from the Sun on June 21.
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Huge solar flare directs a magnetic blob at Earth (VIDEO)
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On June 7, over the course of about three hours, the sun spat out a slavering tongue of fire that rained down upon the solar body in chunks of plasma larger than planets. A minor geomagnetic storm is forecasted for Earth.
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