The culprit behind aurora is our own Sun and the solar plasma that is ejected during a magnetic event like a flare or a coronal mass ejection.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next The first solar storm in 20 years may may occur in outer space today and ‘wipe out the internet’. A Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch warning was issued by the USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday. It’s the first such warning since January 2005. At that time, the highest dose of radiation in 50 years hit the earth.
forecasters will monitor NOAA and NASA’s space assets for the onset of a geomagnetic storm.’ When such alert was last issued in 2005, a storm of energetic protons hit Earth just 15 minutes later. It caused a high frequency radio burst, which indicated a presence of large quantity of energetic electrons in very strong magnetic fields. Radiation monitors across the world were set off by the highest level of radiation to hit the planet in half a decade.
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