[SEDXC] Poised to Erupt--Set Your Attenuators

[Robert Carroll]

>From  <http://www.Spaceweather.com> http://www.Spaceweather.com

 

POISED TO ERUPT: Already this month, the sun has produced two of the biggest
eruptions in years. They occurred on April
<http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/item.php?id=selects&iid=122>  13th and
April
<http://www.spaceweather.com/images2010/20apr10/20100419_1919_eit304_512.jpg
>  19th when magnetic filaments became unstable and exploded. Could it
happen again today? A prominence on the eastern limb of the sun (photo
<http://spaceweather.com/images2010/26apr10/eit304.gif?PHPSESSID=t1fsa1ebrd6
6esl8847e0fii40> ) resembles the precursors of those two earlier blasts.
Readers with solar
<http://www.spaceweather.com/xtra/results_soho_telescopes.php?searchTerm=per
sonal%20solar%20telescope>  telescopes are encouraged to monitor
developments.