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Nature 441, 402-404 (25 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441402a; Published online 24 May 2006
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The dark side of the Sun
Stuart Clark1
- Stuart Clark is a freelance writer based in Hertfordshire, UK.
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The Sun occasionally hurls streams of particles towards Earth, where they can wreak havoc with satellites. Predicting these solar storms is hard, but some physicists believe we're about to face the biggest bout of solar flares in years. Stuart Clark reports.
Halloween is supposed to be a time of weird phenomena and spooky events. But by any standards what happened in late October 2003 was unusual.
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