If trouble erupts, Sun's stock could fall further; if investors deem Sun worth the same multiple as, say, Dell, the shares could fall by more than half yet again.
The latest scandal over alleged payments to police erupted after Sun journalists secretly taped a 45-minute meeting in March between Murdoch and at least 24 staff who had been arrested in relation to Scotland Yard's Elveden investigation.
A long-lasting solar flare erupted from the sun early Saturday (Feb. 9), triggering an intense sun eruption aimed squarely at Earth.
In 1859 the sun erupted, and on Earth wires shot off sparks that shocked telegraph operators and set their paper on fire.
On 24 August a flare erupted from the sun, seen on the left edge of our home star in this image from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (above).
REPORTER AT LARGE about a major flare that erupted on the sun, Feb. 9, 1958; about the magnetic storm that followed a day later; how it affected all sorts of electrical & electronic equipment, including trans-oceanic radios.
And just this past weekend, "a medium-size solar flare erupted from the sun," MSNBC reported, "hurling a cloud of plasma and charged particles toward Earth on a cosmic path that is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet on Tuesday".
By John Brooks The New Yorker, February 7 , 1959P. 39 REPORTER AT LARGE about a major flare that erupted on the sun, Feb. 9, 1958; about the magnetic storm that followed a day later; how it affected all sorts of electrical & electronic equipment, including trans-oceanic radios.
Solar flares are bright as they erupt from the sun, but after the first few hours they diffuse to near invisibility.
In fact, it may not happen at all: Sunspots, the enormous magnetic storms that erupt on the sun's surface as the cycle builds, might disappear entirely for the first time in approximately 400 years.
