US : A solar storm of charged particles which erupted on Tuesday, hit the Earth yesterday, but did not cause any of the geomagnetic disruptions that scientists feared. The storm, which scientists claimed to be the largest in five years, was triggered by a pair of solar flares and is growing like a giant soap bubble.

According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, the solar outburst struck Earth’s magnetic field, cutting some radio communications at the poles, but it didn’t upset electronics and communications elsewhere. Several NASA spacecrafts caught videos of the solar flare as it hurled a wave of solar plasma and charged particles, called a coronal mass ejection into space. A bigger ejection could disrupt satellite operations.