
Courtesy of NASA - Combined images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellites show a giant blob of plasma (top) ejected by the sun on Thursday. The cloud of charged gas is expected to reach Earth Sunday.
Run for the hills!!!! No.. wait! Get in your bunkers!!
Well it is 2012. And it looks like cosmic fun has just begun. Thursday the Sun unleashed a large cloud of plasma and sent it hurling towards our planet.
What does that mean for us?
Well… some experts say that it may disrupt the Earth’s magnetic field as well as cause some problems to radio signal receptions especially at higher latitudes.
Antti Pulkkinen of the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt states, “Our simulations show potential to pack a good punch to Earth’s near-space environment. (But) we’re not looking at an extreme event here.”
“It’s more of a glancing blow,” states Pulkkinen.
NASA spotted this monstrous projectile Thursday morning heading our way at roughly 2 million miles per hour!
“We’re keeping a close eye on it,” Pulkkinen said.
Now there is one good benefit of this burst of Sunny Gas. These types of solar discharges help clean our atmosphere of space junk. I think we need to send a few politicians up to space this weekend.