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The geomagnetic storm may affect satellite operations and could even lead to weak power-grid fluctuations.

The geomagnetic storm may affect satellite operations and could even lead to weak power-grid fluctuations.

The once-in-a-generation space rock was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at the Palomar Observatory in California in March last year while inside Jupiter s orbit.

Tonight, lucky skywatchers in Britain might just have a chance of spotting the aurora borealis, as it creeps as far south as Edinburgh in Scotland.

One of the solar flares caused a brief radio blackout over the Atlantic Ocean when it struck Earth at 14:42 GMT (09:42 ET) yesterday (Wednesday), according to SpaceWeather.com.

A canyon-like cavity in the suns atmosphere known as a coronal hole will launch a solar storm towards our planet tomorrow.

Here's when you could see them.

The Space Weather Prediction Center has posted a Geomagnetic Storm Watch this week. Northern lights will be potentially visible Wednesday through Friday.

Such storms happen periodically as the sun’s activity waxes and wanes, and this particular round is not expected to be catastrophic. That said, there could be “moderate” impacts on Earth.

Coronal Mass Ejections occur often when the sun expels chunks of its outer atmosphere, the corona.