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Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection from the M4.5 solar flare

Coronagraph imagery from SOHO/LASCO is now complete and shows that the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that was launched during the M4.5 solar flare from this past night has an earth-directed component.

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M4.5 solar flare from sunspot region 2158

It took a little while but the sunspot group that we told you to watch out for yesterday has woken up! Sunspot region 2158 was the source of a long duration M4.5 (R1-moderate) solar flare that peaked today at 00:29 UTC.

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