Astronomers saw a corona mass ejection (CME) or storm out of the sun yesterday, Wednesday, November 24, 2021 and could hit Earth. The CME is a large cloud of charged particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun’s corona – the outermost layer of a star’s atmosphere.
According to the US Center for Outer Space Weather Prediction (SWPC), CMEs can reach Earth at speeds between 250 km per second and 3,000 km per second.
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Reported Express, Thursday (11/25/2021), astronomers wrote on the website about the solar storm: “Imagine a 50,000-mile-long flare of red-hot plasma towering over it.”
This is what astronomers see on the sun. That solar storm formed when magnetic filaments lifted from the southern hemisphere.
The erupting filaments split the Sun’s atmosphere, creating a kind of wall of fire as it rose. “The luminous wall remained intact for more than six hours after the explosion,” the astronomer said.
The storm that ensued from the explosion was photographed by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
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