A recent cosmic burst cracked the Earth's magnetic field wide open

Lola Gayle, STEAM Register On June 22, 2015, a burst of galactic cosmic rays was recorded by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at TIFR's Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty. That burst of rays occurred when the sun let loose a giant cloud of plasma that struck our planet at a speed of roughly 2.5 million kilometers…