Serpo
22nd June 2015, 11:54 PM
This solar storm is being caused by three coronal mass ejections — bursts of hot plasma shot from the sun — that met up in space today.
All three CMEs were shot out from the same region of the sun, a sunspot region called 12371.
One ejection was flung into space on June 18, with another occurring a day later.
The most recent CME erupted from the sun on June 21 and is moving more quickly than either of the other two Earth-directed bursts of plasma, a cosmic coincidence that has them all impacting Earth's magnetic field at about the same time.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/22/22/29DF8E8500000578-3135185-The_storm_will_continue_overnight_causing_huge_aur ora_in_the_are-m-23_1435007719968.jpg
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3135185/Look-Sun-unleashes-triple-whammy-geomagnetic-storm-Earth-forecasters-prediction-massive-aurora-possible-problems-severe-storm.html#ixzz3drk5rBLH
All three CMEs were shot out from the same region of the sun, a sunspot region called 12371.
One ejection was flung into space on June 18, with another occurring a day later.
The most recent CME erupted from the sun on June 21 and is moving more quickly than either of the other two Earth-directed bursts of plasma, a cosmic coincidence that has them all impacting Earth's magnetic field at about the same time.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/22/22/29DF8E8500000578-3135185-The_storm_will_continue_overnight_causing_huge_aur ora_in_the_are-m-23_1435007719968.jpg
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3135185/Look-Sun-unleashes-triple-whammy-geomagnetic-storm-Earth-forecasters-prediction-massive-aurora-possible-problems-severe-storm.html#ixzz3drk5rBLH