If You Don't Want To Freak Me Out Then Don't Call It A 'Solar Blob'

 

A solar blob that’s heading our way from space sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie with an outburst of green plasma, but there’s no need to panic, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.

“We’re not going to be in for a big disturbance,” said Norm Cohen, the senior forecaster at NOAA. “The northern tier of the United States might be able to see aurorae.”

This means a big light show for the north by way of an outburst of electrically charged plasma, which is also known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, as it blasted out from the sun on January 13.

 

Above you see what they are telling us the Solar Blob looks like. I have the feeling it's more like the bottom image - another alien lump of asshole just itching to make trouble here on Earth. Watch the skies my people and don't make friends with anything that drops on us from space.