Giant eruption occurs on the Sun; might caught geomagnetic storms
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An explosion occurred behind the Sun's northeastern limb on Sunday and hurled a C9.3-class solar flare. The flare detected by Earth-orbiting satellites might cause minor G1-class geomagnetic storms here on August 3. The explosion formed a new sunspot on the star's surface, and such occurrences will increase in the coming days as the Sun has started one of its 11-year solar cycles.