Solar Flare

This morning, a massive solar flare was caught live by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Though the flare is quite large (a M2.5, or medium-sized flare, in terms of energy), it isn’t expected to alter the weather here on Earth.

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I’ve never seen material released like this before, such a huge amount that falls back down in such a spectacular way,” says Goddard Spaceflight Center’s Dr. C. Alex Young. “It looks like someone just kicked a giant clod of dirt into the air and it fell back down.”

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Solar Flare

Spectacular solar flare 2011 ‘ boreal-perhaps even in Seattle

A view of the aurora borealis, or Northern, Ostby, lights in Sweden in 2006. (Getty Images)

The massive eruption that the Sun on Tuesday exploded will probably mean a colorful display of aurora borealis for observers of heaven on latitudes north and possibly as far south as Seattle.

That is what you are predicting that the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, say the huge eruption, technically not a solar flare, despite rumors of Internet means a larger range than the usual view of the northern lights on Wednesday night.

The Institute predicts Washington D.C., Nebraska and Portland could get even a glance.

Here is the official prognosis:

An event of the Sun took place on 7 June. Rapid arrival of high speed particles already affects the atmosphere. Our model refers to the Earth shock wave hit on 8 June, around 5 pm GMT. This will be followed by a disturbance in the solar wind that shows auroral quite complete within 24 hours after this time is produced should be …

It is difficult to predict what the index k during the night of 8 in North America will be, but it is reasonable to expect that K = 6 the aurora Milwaukee and visible on the horizon of the North in a line of mineral of Portland, South Nebraska, Southern Indiana, Washington, DC would.

This means that if the air is clear, they need your eyes on the horizon in the North around midnight, local time, according to experts. Of course, at the time this entry was posted on Wednesday night, he was in Seattle with a thick layer of clouds.

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