Today, the sky is 'on fire' because a fireball collides with the Earth

According to the Daily Mail, this fireball - actually made of plasma - originated in a coronal mass ejection (CME), which is the most powerful, direct strike the parent star can give them. ta.

A series of solar storms (geomagnetic storms) have hit the Earth in the past few days and the CME like a sudden accretion cyclone.

The forecast map of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA - USA) shows that the sky burning aurora will be very large.

This CME is derived from AR2987, a very large sunspot that exists on the Sun but was once thought to be "dead", ie no longer active. However, it suddenly rose up and fired a C-type fireball on April 11 and today, this powerful projectile will hit its target: Earth.

Live Science quotes solar physicist Philip Judge, from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Center's Altitude Observatory (NCAR - USA), as saying that the idea of ​​a sunspot "is dead". has a poetic meaning. In fact, they're completely restartable with more magnetism than before - with a stronger shot, of course.

According to forecasts from astronomers, this fireball is so powerful that it will cause the aurora to light up an extremely large area. Instead of just the Arctic region visible as usual, now, the northern state of Michigan in the US or Scotland and other northern regions of the UK can also see the aurora borealis.

Unfortunately, accompanying the fanciful "northern lights" is always a big problem: magnetic disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere, affecting telecommunications, navigation systems, even the grid electricity.