Five coronal mass ejections have been released from the sun in a short period of time, three of which are due to hit the Earth and cause geomagnetic storms.
A particularly volatile sunspot has sent a series of solar storms surging toward the Earth, many of which are due to hit in the next few days.Sunspot AR3663 released five plumes of solar plasma—coronal mass ejections, or CMEs—in the past day, with the second, third, and fifth being forecast to slam directly into our planet this weekend.
Sometimes these flares cause a massive amount of solar plasma to be emitted into space in the form of a Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME,'When a CME hits the Earth's magnetic field, it can trigger geomagnetic storms, which are classed based on their strength on a scale of G1 to G5 . These are caused by the charged particles of the CME colliding with the Earth's magnetosphere, causing complex changes in the magnetic field.
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