Solar storms create a wide aurora

A massive solar storm landed on Earth yesterday, creating spectacular aurora on most of the northern hemisphere's sky. On January 1, most of the sun opposite the Earth took place the physical eruption at the corona.

Aurora appears in the sky of Toronto.Photo: AFP

This phenomenon releases 10 billion tons of plasma, extremely hot gas, from the sun's surface and this gas rushes into space and quickly approaches the Earth in just 3 and a half days. The Telegraph newspaper quoted expert Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, saying this is a direct explosion from the first sun in recent times.

However, sputtering causes an explosion on the surface of the sun this time by astronomers as C3. Other sputtering, like X or M forms, create much stronger explosions, and can damage Earth. C-type production rarely affects the Earth rarely, except to create a stunning auroral performance like yesterday in Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Germany, as well as in the north of the United States and Canada. Experts say the solar storm this time does not jeopardize telecommunications, and green planet residents need not worry unless they use satellite-connected devices.

While this solar storm event seems to pose no danger to Earth as predicted, NASA experts warn that the sun's activity will rise to a new level in the 11-year cycle, and will produce born bigger storms. In 1859, a major explosion occurred on the surface of the sun, burning telegraph lines throughout Europe and the United States, knocking down the entire global maritime system as well as the telecommunications network at the time. . Recently, in 1989, a smaller solar storm collapsed Quebec and Canada's electricity network during 9 hours, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

In June, NASA warned the Earth might be suffering from non-mineral energy after the sun "woke up" after a long hibernation, in 2013.

Meanwhile, Global Times newspaper quoted experts predicting the latest solar storm marks the beginning of the sun's higher activity period.