The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Solar storm of 2012">Solar storm of 2012</a> was an unusually large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coronal mass ejection">coronal mass ejection</a> that was emitted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sun">Sun</a> which barely missed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Earth">Earth</a> by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_23#cite_note-9" id="mwAV0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAV4">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt56" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFPhillips2014">Phillips, Tony (23 July 2014). <a class="external text" href="https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/" id="mwBx4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012"</a>. NASA<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBx8">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwByA">6 September</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt56" class="Z3988" id="mwByE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Near+Miss%3A+The+Solar+Superstorm+of+July+2012&amp;rft.date=2014-07-23&amp;rft.aulast=Phillips&amp;rft.aufirst=Tony&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.nasa.gov%2Fscience-news%2Fscience-at-nasa%2F2014%2F23jul_superstorm%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+23"></span></span>