Space is HUGE

What exactly is out in space? Planets, billions and stars, and “solar whips”..?  From August 6th to August 8th, there was a “dark red filament” stretching across the surface of the sun that was said to be about half a million miles long.  Solar whips are cooler clouds of solar material above the surface of the sun which are caused by unstable magnetic forces. The solar whip its self might not have reached planet Earth, but a small cloud of radiation associated with it did. There was a minor geomagnetic storm and a minor solar radiation storm that brought something we call the Northern Lights to parts of North America. What I just don’t understand is why the solar whip didn’t cause more than a just pretty light show. Why wasn’t there some kind of climate change or something, especially when the flare was towards Earth.
Even though this didn’t cause anything but the Northern Lights, this is still a big deal. Half a million mile solar whips don’t happen very often, at least, ones that we can see. This solar whip was said to be a medium sized one, so just how big is a large one? That just goes to show that space is so much bigger than what everybody thinks.  It’s amazing that there’s so much that goes on that we know so little about.