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Solar Storm
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(link) Saturday, 25-October-2003 02:44:18 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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If your PC, mobile phone or other gadgets are acting weirdly today, it could be due to a Coronal Mass Ejection that the Sun is currently aiming our way. The solar stream erupted from a cluster of sunspots on the surface of the sun. The giant dark patch, known as sunspot group 10484, has grown to the size of Jupiter in recent days and has migrated across the face of the sun to a position where it now faces Earth.
There have been similar, but smaller, events like this recently. However, this is apparently the biggest one since 1859. Depending on who you believe, this will either have no effect or break/confuse lots of things including electricity supply. So, I guess we'll see as the day unfolds.
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