After a solar flare incident on the Sun, a massive solar storm is headed towards Earth, as per NASA.

Now a resultant solar storm is fast approaching Earth.

The website has issued a warning that today and for the next couple of days, Earth may feel the impact from the solar storm.

However, the proviso is that the solar storm has to be powerful enough to penetrate the protective magnetic shield that the Earth is enveloped in.

Before a solar storm, always comes a solar flare or coronal mass ejection (CME).

After a solar storm hits Earth, the resultant effect is usually in the form of auroras, Northern Lights, displayed in the areas nearer to the polar regions.

For instance, in February 2011, a solar storm and CME produced by a strong solar flare disturbed radio communications all over China.

The most recent solar storm event on Earth recorded by NASA occurred in 2017 when an X12.9 class solar flare hit Earth and caused a brief radio blackout and damaged satellites.