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Who said the sun had gone to sleep?
A twin shot of coronal mass ejection from the sun this tuesday and wednsday has finally reached earth. The first one which traveled at a speed of 950 km/second was overtaken and absorbed by the bigger and faster CME traveling at 1950 km/second. Their combined energy resulted in the biggest solar(geomagnetic) storm since the last solar maximum eight years ago. And it is now buffeting and pushing back earths protective magnetosphere which again causes the aurora to be visible from much lower latitudes in the northern and southern hemisphere.
Auroral Oval map, where the likelihood of auroras are very high. This will most likely go much further south than on this map(and north for those of you in the southern hemisphere).
I'm looking forward to potentially stunning photos of this rare celestial event.
Edit: Photos from the event are popping up at the spaceweather site now: Aurora over Kiel, Germany
There is also the odd chance that the solar plasma from the CME wave could cause damage to satellites in geosynchrenous orbit, even though they are normally designed to withstand quite a bit of a beating.
K-index explained
For more information about this event I encourage people to visit the spaceweather site and Wikiepdia entry for geomagnetic storms
A twin shot of coronal mass ejection from the sun this tuesday and wednsday has finally reached earth. The first one which traveled at a speed of 950 km/second was overtaken and absorbed by the bigger and faster CME traveling at 1950 km/second. Their combined energy resulted in the biggest solar(geomagnetic) storm since the last solar maximum eight years ago. And it is now buffeting and pushing back earths protective magnetosphere which again causes the aurora to be visible from much lower latitudes in the northern and southern hemisphere.
Auroral Oval map, where the likelihood of auroras are very high. This will most likely go much further south than on this map(and north for those of you in the southern hemisphere).
I'm looking forward to potentially stunning photos of this rare celestial event.
Edit: Photos from the event are popping up at the spaceweather site now: Aurora over Kiel, Germany
There is also the odd chance that the solar plasma from the CME wave could cause damage to satellites in geosynchrenous orbit, even though they are normally designed to withstand quite a bit of a beating.
K-index explained
For more information about this event I encourage people to visit the spaceweather site and Wikiepdia entry for geomagnetic storms
