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Inside the global effort to track the strongest solar storm, which triggered the most powerful auroras seen in over 500 years...
Earth was in the firing line when the strongest solar storm left the Sun in the first week of May...
During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades...
From May 7-11, multiple strong solar flares and at least seven coronal mass ejections, the most powerful explosions from the Sun, stormed toward Earth..
CESSI issued a rare severe class space weather bulletin immediately and alerted scientists at Isro and other institutions associated with the AdityaL1 mission, India's maiden solar probe, to begin tracking and ensuring the safety of assets in space..
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