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Sat, May 25 2013
Strongest solar storm in seven years hits Earth
Photo: Nasa
The biggest solar storm in seven years currently is hitting the Earth, but does not pose a threat to life on the planet.
The U.S. National Weather Service says the blast of solar radiation, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME, may disrupt some satellite and electric ground communications as it peaks on Tuesday. The inclement space weather is expected to last until Wednesday.
The U.S. weather agency says this week’s CME originated from a moderate x-ray flare that erupted on the surface of the Sun early Monday Universal time (0400 UTC).
The last time the Sun produced a storm of this intensity was May 2005.
The Sun is entering an increasingly violent period of its normal 11-year cycle. This interval of high activity, known as the solar maximum, is expected to peak in 2013.
CME’s are billion-ton clouds of super-heated gas and charged particles that are blasted into space from the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona, at several million kilometers per hour.
When the storm’s plasma and particles strike the Earth’s protective magnetic field, the interaction produces colorful auroras - the beautiful, harmless light displays that are seen shimmering across the night skies near North and South poles.
Source: VOANews.com
The U.S. National Weather Service says the blast of solar radiation, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME, may disrupt some satellite and electric ground communications as it peaks on Tuesday. The inclement space weather is expected to last until Wednesday.
The U.S. weather agency says this week’s CME originated from a moderate x-ray flare that erupted on the surface of the Sun early Monday Universal time (0400 UTC).
The last time the Sun produced a storm of this intensity was May 2005.
The Sun is entering an increasingly violent period of its normal 11-year cycle. This interval of high activity, known as the solar maximum, is expected to peak in 2013.
CME’s are billion-ton clouds of super-heated gas and charged particles that are blasted into space from the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona, at several million kilometers per hour.
When the storm’s plasma and particles strike the Earth’s protective magnetic field, the interaction produces colorful auroras - the beautiful, harmless light displays that are seen shimmering across the night skies near North and South poles.
Source: VOANews.com
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