Solar Flare Causes Ideal Conditions to View Auroras for Part of US Later This Week
NOAA said the flare measured 6.9 on the solar scale and could make the northern lights brighter and visible farther south.
- On Tuesday, a sunspot released a coronal mass ejection, sending electromagnetic energy toward Earth and creating prime conditions for northern lights viewing across North America this week.
- Registering a 6.9 on the X-ray class M scale, the flare triggered geomagnetic storms that cause auroras to intensify, becoming brighter and visible further south than normal.
- NOAA and the Solar Dynamics Observatory use GOES satellites to constantly monitor the Sun, with forecasts indicating the electromagnetic wave should reach Earth by Thursday and Friday.
- Combined with the full Sturgeon Moon on Friday, the solar event creates two consecutive nights of eventful skies, with Alaska and northern states bordering Canada having the highest likelihood of viewing the aurora.
- Forecasts for the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday night suggest improved chances for observers as the electromagnetic wave interacts with Earth's upper atmosphere, offering significant viewing potential throughout the region.
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Solar Flare Unleashed: Earth braces for two days of magnetic storms
A cloud of solar plasma, triggered by a powerful eruption on the Sun, is expected to reach Earth on Friday, August 28. Scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN) forecast that the resulting geomagnetic disturbances may cause magnetic storms lasting up to two days. The plasma was ejected into space on August 25 and is currently traveling between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. The flow is moving at …
The Sumerian News is a variety of experts at the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Institute of Space Research and Solar Terrestrial Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences expect magnetic storms to occur within 2-4 days.
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