Earth reaches its closest point to the sun — just in time to be slammed by a solar storm

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ByBrandon Specktor

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https://www.livescience.com/perihelion-solar-storm-2023

A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm will hit Earth right as our planet reaches perihelion, its closest point to the sun.

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A solar flare captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light. Here we see a fiery orange and black orb and at one point a white-hot explosion taking place.

A solar flare captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light. Here we see a fiery orange and black orb and at one point a white-hot explosion taking place.(Image credit: NASA/SDO)

On Jan. 4, Earth will reach its closest point tothe sunall year in an annual event called perihelion. The precise distance varies from year to year, but perihelion 2023 will see our planet orbiting 91.4 million miles (147 million kilometers) from the sun — or roughly 3 million miles (4.8 million km) closer than Earth’s aphelion, its farthest point from the sun, which will occur…

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