Power blackouts to Auroras, how solar storms impact Earth

According to NASA, Solar storms are a variety of eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface.

Solar flares, prominences, sunspots, coronal mass ejections are the common harbingers of solar activity, as are plages and other related phenomena seen at other wavelengths.

Fortunately, scientists can predict solar flares before they happen, and when they occur, they take time, from less than a day to about over a day, for them to reach our planet. 

When a solar flare hits the Earth's magnetic field, radio communications and the power grid are affected. If strong enough, these storms have the potential to destroy the Internet cables at the bottom of the sea and satellites flying high above the Earth.

Solar Storms are so powerful that they can also cause the change in migration patterns of birds, whales and even bees. 

Although solar storms can cause various effects which have the potential to harm the planet, they also result in one of the most beautiful phenomena - Northern Lights. 

Northern Lights, also known as Auroras, bring about shifting curtains of light in greens, blues and pinks in the night sky. 

In the Southern hemisphere, these Auroras are known as Southern lights, or Aurora Australis.