What to know about the massive sunspot facing Earth again:
It’s the same sunspot cluster that brought ‘extreme’ geomagnetic storms, and auroral displays ...
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magnetic field that extends from the Earth's inner core to where it meets the solar wind
temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a disturbance in the interplanetary medium
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