Space forecasting website Space Weather said: “During solar minimum, long-lasting holes open in the sun’s atmosphere, releasing streams of solar wind into space.
“One of those holes is facing Earth now, and it’s a big one.
“We’ve seen this hole before. It opened in the summer of 2018 and has been spinning around as the sun rotates, lashing Earth with solar wind approximately once a month.
“The last time our planet felt its gaseous emissions, in late Jan 2019, bright auroras surged around the Arctic Circle and some of the lights even spilled into the USA.”