NASA have discovered massive bursts of plasma emitted from the sun were strong enough to shift its magnetic field.
An overwhelming solar burst from the Sun hit the Earth hard enough to change its entire magnetic field, researchers have found.Astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center detected an explosion originating from April 2023 that disturbed its natural magnetosphere for two hours.Similar to a supersonic jet being pelted by intense high-speed winds, Earth is perpetually bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as solar wind.
This connection facilitated the transfer of plasma between Earth and the Sun.CMEs can travel from the Sun at speeds ranging from less than 155 miles per second to nearly 1900 mi/s.The fastest CMEs directed at Earth may arrive in just 15-18 hours, while slower ones might take several days.As they move away from the Sun, CMEs expand in size, and larger ones can reach dimensions that cover nearly a quarter of the distance between Earth and the Sun by the time they reach our planet.
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