Maybe all those crazy and eccentric Doomsday Preppers on NatGeo are on to something. Scientist say there's a 1-in-8 chance earth will sustain a catastrophic solar megastorm by 2020. Thankfully these events are rare.
It's an amazing sight '97 and something you'll never see it on this planet. A 90-minute storm on the surface of the Sun was captured on video by NASA last week.
The video of the massive "solar tendril" was taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a small satellite orbiting the Sun to gather data on how weather there affects the weather on Earth...