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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has recorded stunning footage of a powerful massive eruption coming from the sun. While just 46 million miles from our star, closer than the current orbit of Mercury, the orbiter watched a coronal mass ejection (CME) blast out into space. These eruptions have the potential to trigger space weather that can interfere with satellites and power grids on Earth, and can be harmful to unprotected astronauts. It captured the footage of the CME on February 10, when the spacecraft was behind the sun as viewed from Earth, causing the video to t...

A solar storm could mean the Northern Lights will be seen from the UK on Wednesday evening, according to the Met Office.  The phenomenon, also known as the aurora borealis, should be visible under clear skies in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and possibly even parts of Northern England, as well as other areas of the world near the North Pole.  The Northern Lights are created by disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere caused by a flow of particles from the Sun, and are usually concentrated around the Earth's magnetic poles.  Met Office said tonight's display stems from a coronal ...

Solar storms happen when particles from the Sun hit the Earth's magnetic field These charged particles interact with the field and generate the 'northern lights' It is triggered by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun that happened on Monday This expulsion of plasma reached the Earth yesterday and will affect the planet today and on to tomorrow with increasing intensity before calming down