Violent eruption on Sun [Amazing Big Pics]

ah lower reception for Mobile signals..facing it now using mobile broadband

From the article, possibly damage to a satellite. However, a really big one, like the Carrington Event of 1859 would take out long distance power transmission lines, most satellites, and unprotected electronic equipment. No Internet, airliners falling out of the sky, probably months or years before everything was fully restored.

The attribution has a link to here[1] which can get you a days worth of images. --I'm not sure which telescope the article images came from-- The telescope name (or names in the case of the top image) are in the bottom left of the image, and they are from August 9th.

[1] http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/dayform.php