A ‘cannibal’ ejection of energetic and highly magnetized, superheated gas is barreling toward Earth and has a 10 percent chance of producing X-class flares, major events that can trigger radio communication blackouts and disrupt GPS systems, when it hits our planet Thursday.This stream, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), shot out of sunspot AR3078 on Monday and then gobbled up a previous ejection that was released the day before. It is now a ‘mish mash of the two’ with tangled magnetic fields and compressed plasma, highly ionized gas, which are known to cause strong geomagnetic storms.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) experts are expecting G1- (minor) to G2-class (moderate) geomagnetic storms, which will likely produce auroras as far south as New York and .
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