According to scientists, a cosmic tsunami is apparently on the cards for the Earth on Tuesday night, with oodles of plasma, from a gigantic solar blaze, heading directly towards the planet.

Scientists have revealed that the Sun’s surface has already erupted four times since early Sunday morning, sending a barrage of ionized atoms directly at the Earth. When these eruptions, called ‘coronal mass ejections’, hit the planet, the particles will come down toward the North Pole and South Pole.

The Earth-bound particles will hit nitrogen and oxygen; thereby resulting in the creation of a geomagnetic storm and a vibrant display of green and red lights flying through the sky. As per the scientists, the lights will be visible in northern US states, and in Canada.

Noting that it is “the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time,” Leon Golub, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said: “This eruption is directed right at us and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4.”

Elaborating about the eruptions, scientists say that they are part of the Sun’s awakening from ‘solar minimum’ - a period where little activity and few sunspots are witnessed – and its move towards ‘solar maximum’ - a high-activity period with numerous sun spots. Elucidating that it generally takes the Sun 11 years to move from solar minimum and solar maximum, scientists say that the last solar maximum occurred in 2001.