With instruments in space and on earth, NJIT solar experts monitor the massive solar storm
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 14:01
in Astronomy & Space
The first powerful "X-class" solar flare of 2014, in association with another solar phenomenon, a giant cloud of solar particles known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), erupted from the sun on Tuesday, sending radiation and particles speeding toward Earth and disrupting operations on the ground.