The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor geomagnetic activity on Jan. 31.

NASA spots monstrous 500,000-mile sun ‘hole’ that will target Earth with aurora-sparking solar storms on January 31.

While G1 storms are considered the mildest category, they can still have noticeable effects, particularly in terms of aurora visibility at higher latitudes.

A gigantic hole has opened up in the Sun's atmosphere and is currently big enough to spot from Earth. The structure located near the solar equator measures nearly 500,000 miles wide—more than 62 times the width of Earth—and is spewing a fast-moving stream of solar wind—charged particles or plasma—toward our planet,

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

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