PICK OF THE WEEK: Partial 'Halo' Coronal Mass Ejection

[SOHO]

A broadly widening cloud of particles, observed by SOHO's C3 coronagraph, rushed away from the Sun as a coronal mass ejection...



More... (http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/old/17jun2011/)

[Eyes2theSkies]

:(Beautiful and a little scary! I'm interested in finding out what the effects of such ejections might really be. There are times when the CNC mill I run, does something that makes no sense - I know it may sound silly but, I wonder if there is a correlation? Sometimes this does happen on days when there are mass ejections. This last large one was absolutely huge but, not enough for us here in Ohio to see the Northern Lights....although I have heard they have been seen here in the past. Let's hope this doesn't get worse.