Solar Activity: Powerful CME's Will Hit Earth on June 1st, Can It Trigger Solar Storms?

On June 1, one of the current solar cycle's "brightest and fastest" coronal mass ejections (CMEs) will sweep by Earth. Even though it is not projected to hit the Earth directly, space weather specialists predict a glancing blow. CMEs are massive explosions of plasma and magnetic lines that erupt from the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.