6 Sunbursts in 18 Hours: Solar Flares Rapid Fire
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
Between 7pm ET on September 18 and 1pm ET on September 19, six large solar plasma explosions were recorded by the SOHO satellite. One of these coronal mass ejections may create some geomagnetic fireworks viewable on Earth on September 21.