A giant plasma cloud bursts from the sun, but fortunately it won't hit Earth

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A giant plasma cloud bursts from the sun, but fortunately it won't hit Earth
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The sunspot that produced the explosion may be facing Earth in less than two days.

A powerful coronal mass ejection erupting from the sun pictured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory .

Sunspots are darker regions in the sun's lower atmosphere that are cooler than the rest of the sun's disk and feature dense and convoluted magnetic field lines. When these magnetic field lines break, the sunspots release solar flares in the form of bright flashes of light and CMEs. Solar flares travel at the, reaching our planet within eight minutes if directed toward it. CMEs, on the other hand, move through space more slowly, arriving within two to three days.

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