At a speed of one million miles per hour, solar winds will hit Earth this weekend
Experts predict that a solar wind traveling at a speed of one million miles per hour will hit the Earth this weekend.
Space meteorologists have warned that a stream of charged particles from the sun is on its way to us, and could trigger a geomagnetic storm over the planet.
The "high-speed" current (about one million and 600 km per hour) is expected to reach our planet sometime between Sunday and Monday (July 11 to 12),
The current could trigger a small solar storm in the Earth's magnetosphere, a region of space dominated by the Earth's magnetic field, according to SpaceWeather.com.
Solar winds are streams of charged particles or plasma that are emitted from the sun into space.
The US space agency estimates that these winds are higher, on average, at about a million miles per hour, and could be even faster.
From the sun's corona, the inner atmosphere, winds can mix with the Earth's magnetic field and cause a number of phenomena.
Among the weaker effects are the colorful aurora borealis around the planet's poles, the aurora borealis in the north and Aurora Australis in the south.
However, in some cases, strong winds can trigger a geomagnetic storm or a solar storm.
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