Polar Flares To Be Visible Tonight

ideaMUX writes "NASA's solar dynamics observatory recently detected an M-class flare hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The CME is not fully directed toward Earth, but some of the plasma cloud may be visible in the magnetosphere tonight, causing a geomagnetic disturbance and possible aurora. NASA said M-class flares are medium-sized, and can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's Polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow M-class flares."

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From all residents outside the [ant]arctic circle

[ThunderThor53]

Thank you Slashdot.

Sincerely,

All your readers outside of polar areas that won't be able to see anything anyway.

Earth has two poles

[Cyberax]

In Australia, seriously. Aurora Australis is just as beautiful.

Earth has two poles.