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In News: A powerful explosion from the Sun ionized the top layer of Earth's atmosphere and led to a strong
shortwave radio blackout over southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
-> The flare erupted from sunspot
AR3256 near the southwestern limb of the star in our Solar System..
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About: Geomagnetic storms are major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere, area around planet controlled by its magnetic field.
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Occurrence: It occurs when there is a very efficient exchange of energy from solar wind into space environment surrounding Earth.
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Impact: Disrupt navigation systems such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) & create harmful geomagnetic induced currents (GICs) in power grid and pipelines.
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