A massive solar storm could make a ‘direct hit’ with earth in the coming days.
Space weather experts say a 200,000-km long magnetic filament in the sun erupted on Tuesday, hurling part of itself into space.
The debris from the explosion could be headed towards earth, with fears it could graze the earth’s magnetic field on Saturday.
NASA has an active warning in place, saying this could cause “weak power grid fluctuations” as well as the Aurora possibly being visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.
It comes as NASA recently issued an ominous warning that “an upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth, as well as astronauts in space.”
December 2019 marked the beginning of Solar Cycle 25. Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began.
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