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What Would Happen if a Solar Storm Hit Earth?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSolar flares disrupt Earth's magnetic field when they hit the planet, causing issues with power and GPS. But if a major solar storm hit Earth, the...
A once-in-century solar storm could fry power grids and knock out satellites. Here's why scientists...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA long solar prominence erupting off the surface, taken by the Solar Dynamic Observatory on August...
13 times solar storms caused freak events on Earth, from detonating mines to crashing financial...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 20, 2013 shows the bright light of...
'Internet apocalypse': How NASA's solar-storm studies could help save the web
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe emergence of an impending solar storm has brought with it the remote possibility that within the...
A solar storm from 14,300 years ago previews how Earth may one day plunge into darkness
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoearth sun solar storm Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY When the Sun suddenly erupts,...
Solar storm from 1977 reveals how unprepared we are for the next 'big one'
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNew research finds that solar storms vary in strength over surprisingly short distances, and the...
Is the "internet apocalypse" coming?
CBS News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhen a major solar storm hit in 1859, "telegraph systems worldwide went haywire." Here's what to know if such an event were to hit today – and how likely...
Strongest solar storm in nearly 6 years slams into Earth catching forecasters by surprise
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGreen band of aurora light in the sky above a rural building. The most powerful solar storm in...
Ancient superpowered solar storm that hit Earth 14,000 years ago is the 'biggest ever identified'
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHigh radiocarbon levels in the rings of subfossil tree stumps suggest that an incomprehensibly...
This Ancient Solar Storm Would Have Wiped Out Current Satellite System
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 7 months agoAncient Debilitating Solar Storm DiscoveredMARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY - Getty Images...
