Sun fires solar storm directly toward Earth -- at 2 million mph

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 16:31 in Astronomy & Space

The sun unleashed a powerful storm early Tuesday morning, sending an enormous cloud of superheated particles rocketing toward Earth.The solar eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred at 4:24 a.m.

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