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CME is Coronal Mass Ejection.
It is a massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space.
When the ejection is directed towards the Earth and reaches it as an interplanetary CME (ICME), the shock wave of the traveling mass of Solar Energy particles causes a geomagnetic storm that may disrupt the Earth's magnetosphere, compressing it on the day side and extending the night-side magnetic tail. When the magnetosphere reconnects on the nightside, it releases power on the order of TW (TeraWatt) scale, which is directed back toward the Earth's upper atmosphere.
It is a massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space.
When the ejection is directed towards the Earth and reaches it as an interplanetary CME (ICME), the shock wave of the traveling mass of Solar Energy particles causes a geomagnetic storm that may disrupt the Earth's magnetosphere, compressing it on the day side and extending the night-side magnetic tail. When the magnetosphere reconnects on the nightside, it releases power on the order of TW (TeraWatt) scale, which is directed back toward the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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