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A massive solar eruption, dubbed the "bird-wing" event, is set to possibly impact Earth tomorrow, astronomers warn. On Tuesday, a tremendous eruption of superheated plasma surged across the Sun's northern hemisphere.
This solar filament, measuring over 600,000 miles (1 million kilometers) in length, was more than twice the distance from Earth to the Moon.
NASA's solar observation satellites captured this stunning event as filaments of plasma, 75 times larger than Earth, tore away from the Sun in sweeping "wings."
While most of the solar material was ejected away from Earth, astronomers predict that the wake of this eruption could glancingly hit our planet. Aurora chaser Jure Atanackov has warned that the impact might trigger a severe geomagnetic storm, potentially even at the extreme level on official space weather scales.