New Delhi: Hundreds of activities take place in space every moment. Many times the events occurring in our solar system impact the Earth. NASA has issued a warning that billions of hot plasma emanating from the Sun are moving towards the Earth. The solar storm is moving rapidly towards the Earth. It is likely to reach Earth today on 26th November. Earlier, NASA had issued a solar storm warning for November 25.
NASA said in its statement that the Sun has shown activity since last week. The hot plasma coming out of it is continuously moving towards the earth. The Sun launches several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on a daily basis. According to Newsweek, Earth is experiencing a series of solar storms and another storm is expected today. According to NASA, one of these coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is on a collision course with Earth, which is possible today. NASA says that when a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm.
Hugh Morgan, head of the department of solar physics at Aberystwyth University in the UK, told Newsweek: “When a big plasma storm comes up from the Sun, and that storm brings a magnetic field with it and moves in the opposite direction to the Earth’s magnetic field. “It is called a solar storm or a large geomagnetic storm.”
Spaceweather.com had reported that the Sun’s hot plasma may reach Earth between November 25 and 26. After coming into the Earth’s magnetic field, they will take the form of solar or magnetic storms. “Solar flares and CMEs are both caused by the twisting of the Sun’s magnetic field and the tension caused by motion in the Sun,” Daniel Brown, associate professor in the department of astronomy at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, told Newsweek.
Coronal mass ejection or CME is the ejection of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun. There are explosions in the Sun every moment. During this event billions of tons of plasma come out of the corona. While coming out of the Sun, these plasma keep scattering in space. Sometimes their speed is so high that there is a possibility of them coming towards the earth. While moving outward from the Sun, their speed can range from 250 kilometers per second (km/s) to 3000 km/s.