A solar tsunami is what numerous individuals are calling a solar flare that will hit Earth late Tuesday night. Earth saw some particles of sun start flying towards it after an explosion occurred on the sun. Across the surface of the sun, there is a huge solar flare rippling which is what makes a solar tsunami. NASA is preparing for the possibility of solar flare satellite damage. But the extreme space weather will trigger a spectacular display of northern lights.
Solar tsunami happens because of solar flare
The solar flare erupted Sunday morning. The explosion caused a massive solar tsunami across the sun’s surface and blasted a giant wave of ionized atoms on a collision course with Earth’s magnetic field. Fox News reports the solar flare should hit the planet tonight, creating a geomagnetic storm and a northern lights display of rare intensity that might be seen as far south as the U.K.. The space weather could cause solar flare satellite damage, though scientists think that possibility is remote.
STEREO solar tsunami
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) has said the solar flames do exist. STEREO, reports Wired, has two spacecrafts that observe the sun. They both center on Earth’s orbit. They are placed in a manner that makes the sun look three dimensional at all times. At 560,000 mph, a 60,000 mile high wave of hot plasma and magnetism went across the sun’s surface in February of 2009 and was shown by STEREO within the video below.
Sunday’s solar flare a rare event
The second video below shows an extremely rare solar flare from the sun. 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. The only thing Earth will see from this is a geomagnetic storm along with some fairly awesome northern lights.
Northern lights
Solar flares will hit Earth’s atmosphere causing the oxygen and nitrogen to hit charged particles from the sun which causes the northern lights show to happen. GMTV reports the charged particles excite the gas atoms into emitting small bursts of energy in the form of light. The kind of gas is what determines the color. There could 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.
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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