Earth to be hit as Sun erupts with most powerful explosion of 2025

Nasa and Noaa models agree that the explosion will strike our planet sometime on June 1.

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The source of this solar eruption is sunspot 4100, which erupted in dramatic fashion on May 31.

Earth-orbiting satellites detected an M8.2-class solar flare that lasted more than three hours, an unusually long and powerful event. While technically just shy of the X-class threshold, the flare's slow, sustained energy release provided ample force to launch a massive CME from the Sun's atmosphere.

Shortly after the flare, SOHO coronagraphs recorded a bright, fast moving halo CME barreling directly toward Earth.