Huge solar flare ripples the surface of the sun; storms speed to the ground

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Cause a strong solar flare on Tuesday evening on the surface of the sun to the chills. This was followed by a smaller outbreak 2 after about an hour, and explosions caused by those torches and threw a bomb, "a large bubble of magnetic materials" toward the ground.
So says Alex Young, solar physicist at Goddard, who spoke with the newspaper on Wednesday flares and their expected impacts.
The results of geomagnetic storm, the next may be nice - as far south as Aurora, Illinois - or unpleasant, such as GPS and communications problems, according to Young.He said that the first outbreak is the second largest of the current year's session 11 - Solar, which began in 2008, with activity expected to reach its peak next year. And the second less impressive, but also do its part in kicking up a storm.
Young said that "the main concern of the space weather is a blast," or "coronal mass ejection," which follows the flare. This is called the explosion an enormous amount of material into space - the solar plasma, as well as the ionized gas that contains a magnetic field.On a scale of 1 to 5, said Young, has been linked to geomagnetic storm on 2 or 3, moderate to somewhat strong.
Young said it causes the field to "ring like a bell", or swing, - when the material of the coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field - or the magnetosphere. This generates electrical currents that move around in the upper atmosphere, and when strong enough, for reasons of electrical currents on the ground.
This means a possible cut in the distribution of electricity - "severe storms can knock out power grids," said Young. Can be affected by positioning and wireless communications, and can even electrical currents are picked up by the oil pipelines, and contribute to the erosion of their own.
It is expected that the coronal mass ejection to hit the ground at about 1:30 am EST Thursday - with a margin of error of plus or minus seven hours.
But if they are lucky, in the early hours of Thursday morning, residents of northern New York and Idaho - Illinois or even if the conditions are right - can be treated at twilight, and that offers the light color in the night sky, which is generally limited to high latitudes and low.