India, Jan. 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Astronomers have investigated a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that travelled all the way from the Sun to Earth in March 2023, through a coronal hole, an opening in the Sun's magnetic field lines, leading to leakage of solar wind streams. The study highlighted how a subtle solar CME could trigger intense geomagnetic storms on earth increasing the challenges of forecasting the effects of space weather.
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are powerful expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's atmosphere that can sometimes cause intense geomagnetic storms, disrupting satellites, communication systems, and power grids on Earth.
However, around 10% of intense geomagnetic sto...