A full corona solar storm heading towards Earth... What is its danger?

Scientists have revealed that a huge "full corona" solar storm is heading towards Earth, and it is scheduled to hit our atmosphere tomorrow, Saturday, which will lead to a weak geomagnetic storm.

And the "SpaceWeather" website stated that the sun witnessed a solar tsunami explosion on July 21, which led to the release of a cloud of solar plasma, and other solar particles towards the planet Earth.

The site added that a 20,000-kilometre long tongue was headed down the northern hemisphere.

This type of solar storm, known as coronal mass ejection (CME), usually occurs in the sun's most active regions, where magnetic fields are strong, Newsweek reported.

When the twisted magnetic field lines on the Sun reshape themselves, the Sun emits huge tongues of plasma.

Matter emitted by the sun during a coronal mass ejection can contain billions of tons of particles from the sun's atmosphere and carry a magnetic field. Large, fast coronal mass ejections can travel at speeds of up to 4.5 million miles per hour.

What is a solar storm?

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Solar storms are emissions from the sun that are radiation or tiny particles that carry electrical charges that are released at very high speeds of more than one million kilometers per hour.

Khater explained that solar storms affect communication networks.

Is the next storm dangerous?

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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that the magnetosphere storm tomorrow will be G1 to G2 (light to moderate), although there is little chance of the storm rising to G3 (strong).

However, Newsweek indicated that this type of storm has the ability to cause fluctuations in power networks and affect some functions of satellites, including those of mobile devices and GPS systems, and changes in the behavior of migratory animals, but not Significantly.

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This magnetic storm will appear as aurora, or northern/southern lights, which are caused by the acceleration of electrons from the solar wind along magnetic field lines toward Earth's poles.

The electrons collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms and molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere, causing them to emit their excess energy in a bluish-green glow.