According to space scientists, a powerful geomagnetic storm is moving toward Earth.
Space weather experts predict that a powerful geomagnetic storm brought on by the sun could affect Earth later this week. Image source Following recent explosions on the sun that have produced powerful solar flares and several "coronal mass ejections," which could hit the planet on Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center on Wednesday issued a geomagnetic storm watch. "A major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a particularly efficient interchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment around Earth," according to NOAA, is what a geomagnetic storm is. The greatest storms caused by these circumstances are linked to solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs), in which a billion tonnes or so of solar plasma with an embedded magnetic field reach Earth. However, there is a risk that the anticipated storm could intensify to a rating of 3 on the geomagnetic storm severi...