SR-Lord, have Mercy

Hot glowing gas from the sun is coming our way in the solar wind.

A HOLE IN THE SUN’S ATMOSPHERE: A large hole has opened in the sun’s atmosphere and it is releasing a stream of solar wind directly toward Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is tracking the structure, which spans much of the sun’s southern hemisphere:


This is a “coronal hole”–a vast region in the sun’s corona where the magnetic field has opened up, allowing solar wind to escape. It looks dark in SDO images because hot glowing gas normally contained there is missing. It’s on its way to Earth.

NOAA forecasters say that a G2-class geomagnetic storm is possible when the leading edge of the solar stream reaches Earth, possibly as early as March 25th. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.

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