Solar storm hurtling at 1,800,000kph to hit Earth and 'could impact satellites'

dailystar.co.uk:

solar storm travelling at 1.8 million km per hour will hit Earth on Sunday (May 2) with enough force to potentially cause disruption to satellite networks.Researchers spotted a hole in the sun’s atmosphere that is erupting solar particles into space at 500km a second, causing a solar storm.

The stream of particles is on a direct collision course with Earth, and is due to hit on Sunday May 2, the Express writes.It has been labelled a G1 class storm which can lead to “weak power grid fluctuations” and can have a “minor impact on satellite operations”.But this storm is relatively insignificant as solar flares go and is a regular occurrence.The sun regularly erupts flares into space, and the vast majority are harmless to Earth.Nonetheless, the.