{"id":110808,"date":"2026-07-01T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=110808"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:55:51","slug":"interplanetary-coronal-mass-ejections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/interplanetary-coronal-mass-ejections\/","title":{"rendered":"Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian astrophysicists have uncovered new insights into how large solar eruptions called Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) evolve thermally during their journey from the Sun to the Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are <\/span><b>massive blasts of magnetized plasma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released from the <\/span><b>Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which then travel through interplanetary space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When those ICMEs are directed towards us and encounter Earth\u2019s magnetic field, they can disturb it and cause <\/span><b>geomagnetic storms.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They produce colorful, <\/span><b>dazzling auroras in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The level of activity of the Sun has an 11-year cycle, and more ICMEs are created during the maxima of these cycles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICMEs are <\/span><b>responsible for the severest of geomagnetic storms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when they impinge upon Earth\u2019s magnetosphere.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICMEs also provide an enormous plasma laboratory to study physical processes in space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Impacts of Interplanetary <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-coronal-mass-ejections-cmes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coronal Mass Ejections<\/a>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These storms have <\/span><b>adverse effects on satellite operations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, GPS and radio communications, aviation routes, and power grids.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2279357&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections are massive blasts of magnetized plasma released from the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, which then travel through interplanetary space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":110856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8431],"class_list":{"0":"post-110808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-interplanetary-coronal-mass-ejections","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110872,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110808\/revisions\/110872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}