Before we run through the news of the day, let's pause for something spectactular: from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It shows a "massive filament" eruption on the sun that occurred last Friday. , it is "mind-bogglingly gorgeous."
The eruption apparently stretched out a "half million miles into space," The Register adds. Fortunately, the sun is . And, , the eruption "did not travel directly toward Earth," though it did give a "glancing blow" to the planet's "magnetic environment" on Monday.
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