Tuesday night there is going to be what is called a solar tsunami. Earth saw some particles of sun start flying towards it after an explosion occurred on the sun. A solar tsunami is the giant circular wave rippling across the surface of the sun caused by the solar flare. The solar flare may very well hurt numerous NASA satellites during the process. This will create a display of northern lights that is magical. Source of article – Massive solar flare will ignite big northern lights show Aug. 4 by Personal Money Store.
An after effect is a solar tsunami
Sunday was when the solar flare happened. Earth’s magnetic field caught some of the ionized atoms which were created by the tsunami and headed towards earth. The solar flame might hit tonight making for a rare northern lights display and geomagnetic storm, reports Fox News. The space weather could cause solar flare satellite damage, though scientists think that possibility is remote.
Solar tsunami with STEREO
The existence of solar flares to create a solar tsunami were confirmed by STEREO, or NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory. STEREO, reports Wired, has two spacecrafts that observe the sun. Earth’s orbit is what these spacecrafts go around. The tandem produces a stereoscopic image of the sun that presents a three-dimensional view. In February 2009 STEREO confirmed the solar tsunami was not the shadow of a solar flare, but a 60,000-mile-high wave of super-hot plasma and magnetism blazing across the sun’s surface at 560,000 mph (see video below).
Sunday’s solar flare a rare event
Solar flares like the one in the video from Sunday are very rare. Two solar flares, reports Telegraph, were shot at Earth seemingly simultaneously. The first eruption was a very large one that ended up screwing up the Sun’s magnetic atmosphere making conditions for the second eruption very good, Dr Lucie Green told the Telegraph. A northern lights show along with a geomagnetic storm will be the result of this.
Northern lights
When the solar flares hit the Earth Tuesday, charged particles from the sun will hit the oxygen and nitrogen in the Earth’s upper atmosphere to produce the northern lights. Small bursts of energy look like light as the particles hit, reports GMTV. The kind of gas is what determines the color. There can be colors like greenish-yellow, red, or blue depending on whether Oxygen or nitrogen is getting excited. Also seen often is purple, white and pink within these other colors.
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Fox News
foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/03/spectacular-northern-lights-signals-sun-waking/
Wired
wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/solar-tsunami/
The Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7923069/Nasa-scientists-braced-for-solar-tsunami-to-hit-earth.html
YouTube
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