Scientists can usually spot coronal mass ejections before they affect Earth—but this one snuck past coronagraphs and satellites.
  • mos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    I think we need to have an intervention. We need to ban the term “slammed” in headlines and encourage more creativity.

  • MrNesser@lemmy.world
    54·
    3 days ago

    It’s a flare traveling at the speed of light it hit us before any observable data made it here.

    Also prediction models of the sun are notoriously unreliable.

    We can predict all the weather on earth with higher precision and still get it wrong.

    • Shuur@mander.xyz
      12·
      3 days ago

      Solar flares are made of charged particles (plasma), they travel at a speed much slower than the speed of light.