Don’t forget to duck. Huge blasts of sun’s plasma hurtling toward Earth A huge mass of magnetically charged material ejected from the sun is racing across space toward our planet, where it is expected to arrive on Tuesday. When it strikes the Earth’s magnetic field, it could produce spectacular auroras. A blast of violent space [...]
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