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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Space Weather Forecast: More Solar Storms on the Way


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A NASA image depicts a solar flare observed July 2002, with an illustration of Earth added for scale.

The appearance of a sunspot last week portends the arrival of a new cycle of solar storms, which can knock out power grids and shut down satellite communications, according to experts.

Image courtesy SOHO-EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA