SOLAR FLARES TO HIT EARTH IN RARE ONE-TWO PUNCH (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, September 11, 2014, 22:30

The sun launched back-to-back solar flares directly at Earth this week, but the resulting geomagnetic storms pose little danger, officials said today (Sept. 11).

A strong X1.6-class solar flare erupted Wednesday at 1:46 p.m. ET from a sunspot more than 10 times the size of Earth, jetting out billions of tons of charged particles. The same sunspot also blasted out a minor solar flare on Monday.

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