heartmindspirit:

“A coronal mass ejection was detected on August 1st, 2010 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and is expected to produce a spectacular aurora (northern lights) display on August 4th and 5th in Canada, northern US, Russia, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Greenland and Finland.

Early on Sunday, a coronal mass ejection (CME) of highly charged particles occurred in the Sun’s surface, sending billions of tons of plasma into space and directly towards Earth. This is the first major Earth-directed eruption in a long time, as the Sun begins to leave its solar minimum stage in its eleventh year of sun spot activity.”