Space weather watchers have warned that geomagnetic storms could hit Earth around mid-day on Thursday, following an explosion on the Sun earlier this week.
Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory detected the explosion of old sunspot AR2987 on Monday, 11 April 2022.
The blast sent out a wave of energy in the form of radiation and triggered a coronal mass ejection (CME), an expulsion of plasma and magnetic fields.
This solar material is anticipated to hit Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of over 2 million kilometres per hour, creating a shockwave that compresses the day-side of Earth’s magnetosphere and extends it on the night-side, resulting in geomagnetic storms…
