Check Out the Sun Releasing a Triple Threat of Solar Activity

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When solar flares, coronal mass ejections or coronal holes occur, it can mean tempestuous solar particles are sent Earthward. However, all three of those events recently occurred on the surface of the Sun and experts say that means we are in for one heck of a show on Earth.

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00:00When solar flares, coronal mass ejections, or coronal holes occur, it can mean tempestuous

00:08solar particles are sent Earthward. However, all three of those events recently happened

00:13on the surface of the Sun, and experts say that means we're in for one heck of a show

00:17on Earth.

00:18NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center just released a forecast outlining that on September

00:2216th, we're in for a G3-level geomagnetic storm. This is the result of an X4.5-level

00:29X-class flare that erupted on the 14th. At the same time, the Sun also released a coronal

00:34mass ejection, where billions of solar particles were jettisoned into the cosmos. However, experts

00:40say it's even more intense because all of this occurred near a coronal hole, or an area

00:44where the Sun's magnetic field lines were weak. That means those solar particles had less solar-bound

00:49pull, meaning they could escape with more power. So what does that mean for us Earthlings?

00:53Well, experts say that we should expect more beautiful auroras in the night sky, something

00:58becoming more frequent as the Sun approaches its solar maximum. However, they say we could

01:02also see radio communication disruptions, as well as issues with GPS.

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