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Space weather threatens high-tech life

  • Written by Roger Dube, Research Professor of Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
A coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun in 2012.NASA

Shortly after 4 a.m. on a crisp, cloudless September morning in 1859, the sky above what is currently Colorado erupted in bright red and green colors. Fooled by the brightness into thinking it was an early dawn, gold-rush miners in the mountainous region of what was then called the Kansas...

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