Baker, the University of Colorado expert said a concerned woman in France contacted officials there for advice on how to prepare for a major geomagnetic storm.
But if our friends in the far north aren't looking forward to losing sunlight, they can look forward to the geomagnetic storms known as the Northern lights.
When this shockwave of plasma reaches a planet, it can cause geomagnetic storms which tears electrons from electronic devices and may even expose any present life to cosmic radiation.
It's classified as a G1 on a scale from G1 to G5 with the " G" standing for geomagnetic and the one being the weakest classification on the NOAA Geomagnetic Storm Scale.
In low Earth orbit where underneath the geomagnetic fields which serve as a shield for us in a way and we'll get about three times as much ionizing radiation in deep space as we would in low-earth orbit.