SOLAR STORM HITS EARTH!

Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert after an explosion on the surface of the sun led to an enormous magnetic storm which has the power to disrupt power lines, satellite navigation systems and flight paths.
The eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), has led to a "massive amount of solar particles heading towards Earth", which are expected to pass the planet, a spokesman for the Met Office said.
A big solar flare and possibly clear skies over Western Washington could give residents an eyeful of northern lights after midnight tonight and again Thursday evening. The eruption on the sun is the  largest since December 2006, said Joe Kunches, a spokesman and space scientist at.............
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