[MIham] Fw: Solar Blast Just Misses Earth

[Frank]

Space Weather News for August 8, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

SOLAR BLAST JUST MISSES EARTH: On Saturday, August 7th, magnetic fields 
around sunspot 1093 erupted.  NASA spacecraft and many amateur astronomers 
photographed the blast, which produced a strong M1-class solar flare and 
hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space--apparently just missing the 
sun-Earth line. The explosion also made whooshing sounds in the loudspeakers 
of some shortwave radios. Visit http://spaceweather.com for audio recordings 
and movies of this latest solar event.

AURORA RECAP:  Last week's geomagnetic storm sparked Northern Lights as far 
south as Iowa in the United States, and some nice Southern Lights over 
Antarctica.  For the latest images, start browsing here: 
http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01aug10_page4.htm