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The most extreme space weather occurs when the Sun blasts billions of tons of energized particles toward Earth at speeds up to 6.7 million mph (3,000 km/s). Known as coronal mass ejections, these explosions can cause intense geomagnetic storms, as well as negatively affect astronauts and spacecraft.


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