A huge explosion on the Sun is hurling billions of tons of plasma and particles across space towards Earth — and is expected to hit on Thursday.
The 'cannibal' coronal mass ejection, so called because it has already absorbed a previous flare from the day before, was fired from the surface of the Sun on Monday (August 15), according to experts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Observers from the independent alert service Spaceweather.com have since predicted that the solar storm originating from the active sunspot AR3078 could cause disruption to important GPS navigation systems on Thursday (August 18).
