Recently there was an unusual solar storm on the Sun, which formed a giant fire canyon. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showed a vivid animation of this huge ejection of charged plasma. The solar wind reached Earth in April 2022. And on August 9, after a solar flare, charged particles bombarded our planet again. At 600 kilometers per second [372 miles per second], they collided into Earth's magnetosphere, causing auroras. The northern lights were visible in U.S. states from Maine to New York.

Recently there was an unusual solar storm on the Sun, which formed a giant fire canyon. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showed a vivid animation of this huge ejection of charged plasma. The solar wind reached Earth in April 2022. And on August 9, after a solar flare, charged particles bombarded our planet again. At 600 kilometers per second [372 miles per second], they collided into Earth's magnetosphere, causing auroras. The northern lights were visible in U.S. states from Maine to New York.

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