By Ben Turner published about 23 hours ago
Thankfully, the storm is classified as weak.
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An artist’s illustration of a solar storm(Image credit: Shutterstock)
High-speed solar winds from a “hole” in the sun’s atmosphere are set to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Wednesday (Aug 3.), triggering a minor G-1 geomagnetic storm.
Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) made the prediction after observing that “gaseous material is flowing from a southern hole in the sun’s atmosphere,”according to spaceweather.com.
Coronal holes are areas in the sun’s upper atmosphere where our star’s electrified gas (or plasma) is cooler and less dense. Such holes are also where the sun’smagnetic fieldlines, instead of looping back in on themselves, beam outward into space. This enables…
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