A solar tsunami could be hitting Tuesday night for anybody willing to stay up and watch it. 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. The solar flare may very well hurt numerous NASA satellites during the process. This will create a display of northern lights that is magical. Article source – Massive solar flare will ignite big northern lights show Aug. 4 by Personal Money Store.
Solar flare triggers solar tsunami
The solar flare occurred on Sunday. 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. 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
Solar tsunamis emanating from the site of solar flares were confirmed to exist by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). Wired reports that STEREO is two spacecraft pointing at 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. 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 in the video below.
Rarity of solar flares
The second video below shows an very rare solar flare from the sun. Solar flares on the sun launched to Earth at about the same time as outlined by Telegraph. Dr Lucie Green, of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey, England, told the Telegraph the first eruption was so large it changed the magnetic fields throughout half the sun’s visible atmosphere and provided the right conditions for the second eruption. The only thing Earth will see from this can be a geomagnetic storm along with some pretty awesome northern lights.
Northern lights on display
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. GMTV reports that the charged particles excite the gas atoms into emitting small bursts of energy within the form of light. The color of the light depends on which gas is being excited and by how much. There could be colors like greenish-yellow, red, or blue depending on whether Oxygen or nitrogen is getting excited. The blending of these colors can also produce purples, pinks and white.
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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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