The biggest solar storm in seven years currently is hitting the Earth, but does not pose a threat to life on the planet.<\/p>\n
The U.S. National Weather Service says the blast of solar radiation, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME, may disrupt some satellite and electric ground communications as it peaks on Tuesday. The inclement space weather is expected to last until Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The U.S. weather agency says this week\u2019s CME originated from a moderate x-ray flare that erupted on the surface of the Sun early Monday Universal time (0400 UTC).<\/p>\n
The last time the Sun produced a storm of this intensity was May 2005.<\/p>\n
The Sun is entering an increasingly violent period of its normal 11-year cycle. This interval of high activity, known as the solar maximum, is expected to peak in 2013.<\/p>\n
CME\u2019s are billion-ton clouds of super-heated gas and charged particles that are blasted into space from the Sun\u2019s upper atmosphere, the corona, at several million kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n
When the storm\u2019s plasma and particles strike the Earth\u2019s protective magnetic field, the interaction produces colorful auroras – the beautiful, harmless light displays that are seen shimmering across the night skies near North and South poles.<\/p>\n
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