2015: The Largest Explosion In Earth's Magnetosphere Ever Observed

[Mister Obvious]

Three times closer than normal...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1...clear-bomb

This took place in December 2015 and they've only just now understood WTF happened...

I wonder what kind of things an event like this can set into motion?

https://spaceweatherarchive.files.wordpr....jpg?w=676

What type of changes are made to the planet when this sort of thing happens??

The explosion delivered as much as ~88 PetaJoules of energy to the near-Earth environment -- more than 10 times the energy of the largest US nuclear bomb

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2020/01/...-doorstep/