GEOMAGNETIC STORM TO HIT EARTH TODAY, TOMORROW: CANYON OF FIRE ON SUN EXPLODES

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Earth is in the splash zone as the solar cycle progresses and the Sun spits out plasma into space's vacuum. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (Noaa) Space Weather Prediction Center has forecast a solar radiation storm for Wednesday and Thursday as the Sun spits filaments of plasma from a canyon that opened up on the surface on Sunday.

In response to the expected arrival of the coronal mass ejection from the filament eruption located near S22W30 on the Sun, a US-based space observer issued an alarm for a mild geomagnetic storm. With proton levels reaching the S1 (Minor) threshold, a Solar Radiation Storm might erupt on Earth, according to the agency.

The geomagnetic storm is expected to last until April 7, causing power grid irregularities, a modest influence on satellites in low Earth orbit, and the start of auroras at higher altitudes. Minor radio blackouts may be caused by the geomagnetic storm.

Geomagnetic storms are large disturbances of Earth's magnetosphere that occur when the solar wind's energy is efficiently transferred to the space environment surrounding the planet.

CANYON OF FIRE EXPANDS

According to Space Weather, the current source of the eruption is a site known as the canyon of fire, which is a dark filament of magnetism that has opened up in the sun's atmosphere. The canyon's walls are at least 20,000 kilometres high and ten times as long. Experts estimate that portions of the magnetic filaments will erupt as Earth-directed CMEs from the blast site.

While the majority of the CME will avoid Earth, some of it will impact, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory photographed an asymmetric full-halo CME emanating from the blast location. "On April 5th or 6th, a portion of the storm cloud appears to be travelling for Earth and could strike our planet's magnetic field. A modest G1-class geomagnetic storm could be triggered by a glancing blow "In its observation, SpaceWeather stated.

On Monday, a similar eruption occurred. Experts aren't sure if the CME will impact Earth or not.

This isn't the first time Earth will be hit by a geomagnetic storm; the frequency of space weather occurrences has grown as the Sun's new solar cycle ramps up activity. While the one headed for Earth is expected to be modest, SpaceX Starlink satellites were hit hard earlier this year. When a CME from the Sun collided with Earth's orbit, 40 Starlink satellites were destroyed in space.

 

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