A mysterious shock wave cracked Earth’s magnetosphere Monday night, December 19. Magnetosphere is the region that protects the planet from harmful space radiation. Although the shockwave’s origin is unknown, astronomers think it came from an ejection of energetic and highly magnetized, superheated gas discharged from the sun, which is also called a coronal mass ejection (CME). According to Space... 

This NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory image shows a giant sunspot group on the sun, from where an X-class flare erupted on January 7, 2013. A large coronal mass ejection has reached Earth – days after the Sun sent a massive burst of solar wind and electromagnetic radiation towards our planet. While causing no major geomagnetic storm, it has produced spectacular auroras in northern Europe. The... 

Particles from a recent solar storm are expected to induce temporary radio blackouts in some areas and create Northern Lights, or auroras. Following a massive eruption of solar plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) on December 26, experts predict the fast-moving charged particles strike the Earth’s magnetic field on Wednesday, December 28, for about seven hours. Particles from another...