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Knowing little to nothing about the sun, is this what is gonna hit Earth tomorrow? (Ref: https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/1548380370038444034)

The whole Twitter account (@hfsolar1) has some amazing videos of what's happening on/in the Sun, the videos seems to be 3D graphics generated from data, anyone know where the data comes from?

Shouldn't it have hit in ~8 minutes?
If the CME was traveling at light speed, but it moves much slower.
They're not 3D graphics, it's actual imagery (non visible light, probably H-alpha) from the STEREO, SDO, or SOHO probes (or all of them).
Does that mean that we may see aurora in the UK?