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Hot plasma, which spewed from the Sun leaving the monster hole in the corona, the Sun's upper atmosphere, will hurtle towards Earth at two million miles an hour.

The US Space Weather Prediction Centre has predicted the stormy conditions have a 50 to 60 per cent likelihood that the storm will continue again tonight.

molecules, triggering auroras like The Northern Lights. 

At their strongest, solar storms can affect electrical equipment and grids, and knock out satellite and radio equipment.

However, believers of the popular Nibiru myth are claiming solar storms are a sign of the arrival of the alleged planet.

The Nibiru or Planet X theory claims a mini solar system consisting of a sun, planets and moons is lurking on the edge of our solar system with a huge 3,600 miles orbit of the sun.

Nibiru believers are convinced the "rogue system" is making its way from the outer solar system inwards, where it will wreak havoc on Earth as it passes at about four million miles away.

They say the planet will cause the poles to switch, sparking great earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Believers now claim it will be on an approach path with the earth between November 20 and December 20. Some Nibiru believers are convinced a strong solar storm could be a sign Nibiru is

nearly upon us.

One is Christian conspiracy theorist and Nibiru believer David Meade, who writes for PlanetXnews.com.

He wrote on the website: "What if an X-60 solar flare leaps from the Sun when Planet X approaches? 

"The coronal mass ejection (CME) heads straight towards Earth. 

He then warned how a strong solar flair could mean Nibiru was nearing.

What if an X-60 solar flare leaps from the Sun when Planet X approaches?

Mr Meade said: "This type of event may be our first overt sign of the nearness of the approach of Planet X. 

"It is accompanied by an X-ray burst. Both have devastating effects. 

"The X-ray burst travels at the speed of light and would reach Earth’s surface in eight minutes."

US space agency Nasa says there is no link between Nibiru and solar storms, which happen infrequently when plasma ejects from the Sun, because the former does not exist.

The Nibiru myth emerged in 1976, when writer Zecharia Sitchin claimed two ancient Middle Eastern cultures, the Babylonians and Sumerians, told of a giant planet dubbed Nibiru which orbited

the Sun.

Nasa insists that conspiracy theorists like Mr Meade are completely wrong, and the Nibiru myth is an internet hoax.

Dr David Morrison, a Nasa scientist, said: "There is no credible evidence whatever for the existence of Nibiru. 

“There are no pictures, no tracking, no astronomical observations.

“I can quite specifically say how we know Planet X or Nibiru does not exist and does not threaten Earth.

“Firstly, if there was a planet headed into the inner solar system that was going to come close to the Earth, it would already be inside the orbit of Mars, it would be bright, it would be

easily visible to the naked eye - if it was up there it would be easy to see it, all of us could see it." 

Space boffin Dr Brian Cox has also insisted Planet X does not exist.

And associate Professor Jonti Horner, an astronomer at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, said: "I’ve never heard of anybody who’s an actual astronomer talk about Nibiru

before. 

"It’s basically an urban myth — it’s like having a biologist coming out and talking about werewolves and the Sasquatch being real. You just wouldn’t hear it.”

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