Solar flare

• The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• From AccuWeathers Facebook Astronomy expert Daniel Vogler, A huge M class (solar flare) flare from (sunspot) 1402 this time! CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) expected to hit around Wednesday (or) Thursday. Glancing blow again.
(AccuWeather.com)
• The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a solar energetic particle event.
(NASA)
• WASHINGTON — Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The radiation is mostly an issue for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space.
(Washington Post)
• WASHINGTON — A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, U.S. space weather monitors said Monday.
(Calgary Herald)
• It began with a solar flare that erupted on the surface of the sun late Sunday night. That flare caused a coronal mass ejection, which is a release of a huge burst of plasma and charged particles.
(Examiner)
• Its being called the largest solar storm since December of 2006. A big explosion on Sunspot number 1402 is sending a storm our way; its a geomagnetic storm heading toward planet Earth.
(KELOLAND TV)
• On Thursday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this colorful close-up video of a long-lasting M-class solar flare.
(National Geographic)
• A long duration M-class flare began erupting on the sun at 8:42 AM ET on Thursday, January 19. The flare is shown in the above movie from the Solar Dynamics Observatory in a combination of light wavelengths.
(NASA)