The most terrible solar storm of the decade is about to happen

While the Earth is facing a series of super typhoons and extreme weather events, warnings about the strongest solar storm of the decade have been released.

According to CTV News, from the previous week, the sun began to release strong stable radiation streams, making the NOAA space forecasting center to issue a warning about a geomagnetic storm.

"This period of solar eruptions is rare, but history has proved they can still have incredible power ," NASA said.

The eruption can release a series of electromagnetic energy.

An eruption on the sun, or a solar storm, occurs when the energy of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the sun on the sun is released, causing a flash of light to appear on the sun over a period of 10 minutes. or less.

The eruption can release a range of electromagnetic energy , from visible X-rays to more energetic gamma rays. The impact of this phenomenon may include causing passengers on the flight to experience higher radiation than usual, even if there is no immediate danger to life.

Solar storms are divided into categories A, B, C, M, X based on scale, the latter is 10 times stronger than the previous one. Each eruption ray is attached with a number indicating more information, for example an X3 ray will be 3 times stronger than X1 rays.

According to CNN, some eruptions at M and X levels occurred during the past week, culminating in the eruption of X9.3 on September 6. The second serious case is X8.2 which takes place on September 10. Earlier, the strongest solar storm ever recorded was X28, which took place in 2003.

Sun eruptions on September 10, 2017.(Photo: NASA).

Everything becomes more dangerous when solar storms interact with satellites that cause solar wind (CME), a giant cloud of solar plasma waves surrounded by magnetic fields. This is when things get dangerous.

When the solar wind directly impacts the Earth, ionizing particles can collide, causing the magnetic field around the Earth to deform, causing a geomagnetic storm. Typhoon from the influence of satellites, navigation systems and communication systems in the world, enhances the Arctic phenomenon. In 1989, a solar wind caused Quebec and the northeastern United States to lose power for nine hours.

According to CTV News, solar radiation eruptions as big as September 6 can cause solar wind (CME).

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