<p>The flare peaked early Tuesday and created a large cloud that appeared to cover almost half the surface of the sun, Nasa said. <br /><br />A cloud of charged particles erupted from the sun’s outer atmosphere and is expected to pass by earth, causing a minor disruption to earth’s magnetic field, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Centre in Boulder, Colorado.<br /><br />“This wasn’t really such a big event,” said Michael Hesse, chief of the space weather laboratory at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md. <br /><br />“It was spectacular to watch, but not big in terms of hazards to the earth.”<br /></p>
<p>The flare peaked early Tuesday and created a large cloud that appeared to cover almost half the surface of the sun, Nasa said. <br /><br />A cloud of charged particles erupted from the sun’s outer atmosphere and is expected to pass by earth, causing a minor disruption to earth’s magnetic field, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Centre in Boulder, Colorado.<br /><br />“This wasn’t really such a big event,” said Michael Hesse, chief of the space weather laboratory at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md. <br /><br />“It was spectacular to watch, but not big in terms of hazards to the earth.”<br /></p>