The Earth is only hours away from being splattered with a big blob of solar goo, which could knock out some radio satellites.
The goo, known as a coronal mass ejection, was spat out by the sun yesterday and will arrive either tonight or tomorrow morning.
The Met Office has warned that the blast of charged particles could cause a ‘severe’ solar storm.
While power outages can occur during solar storms, also called geomagnetic storms, tonight’s will ‘unlikely’ knock electricity out.
This does, however, mean people in the UK have a high chance of seeing the northern lights, which happen when solar plasma interacts with Earth’s invisible magnetic field.
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