Potentially threatening solar activity will peak late this year or early next year, according to NASA, as seen in the last “ejection” two weeks ago that spit out solar particles at twice the common speed of other recent events.

According to space experts at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center just outside Washington in Greenbelt, Md., the 11-year cycle of the sun will hit “solar maximum” by early 2014 and the number of so-called “coronal mass ejections,” or CMEs, that can threaten technology, especially electrical grids, is likely to increase.

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