A giant “hole”, that is 20 times larger than the Earth, has appeared on the surface of the Sun, and could hurl a solar storm to Earth by Friday, the media reported.Daniel Verscharen, Associate Professor of Space and Climate Physics at University College London, said the geomagnetic storm could be reaching Earth at a speed of about 1.8 million miles per hour, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a powerful geomagnetic storm causes severe disturbances to Earth’s magnetic field, spewing solar material from coronal mass ejections (CME) – large expulsions of charged plasma from the Sun’s upper atmosphere or the corona; and also reveal stunning auroras when they reach the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The shape of this coronal hole is not particularly special. However, its location makes it very interesting,” Verscharen was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I would expect some fast wind from that coronal hole to come to Earth around Friday night into Saturday morning of this week,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes after NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, earlier this week, spotted a giant, black region of the sun — called a coronal hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Mathew Owens, a professor of Space Physics at the University of Reading, such holes are more likely to appear, because the Sun is gearing up to a peak of activity, which happens about every 11 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This one being at the equator means we’re pretty much guaranteed to see some fast wind at Earth a couple of days after it rotates past the central meridian,” he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, he said: “I doubt it will result in too much excitement. Unless we just so happen to get an Earth-directed CME around the same time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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