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(NASA/ESA/SOHO) CMEs can travel at speeds ranging from a few hundred to several thousand kilometers per second, sometimes reaching Earth within days, if their trajectory is in our direction. When they ...

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Auroras are byproducts of the interaction between solar wind and the Earth’s magnetosphere, containing its magnetic field. Following a solar flare or a coronal mass ejection, plasma from the Sun is ...