Posts Tagged northern lights


Solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights

The largest solar radiation outburst in six years has reached Earth, having hit our planet with high-energy atomic particles at around 2 pm GMT, scientists say, threatening possible malfunction of communication satellites and As the Earth's magnetic field begins to calm after several days of intense geomagnetic activity, the NOAA has announced that we experienced [...]

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Solar flare unlikely to affect NZ aviation

About a half hour ago there was a short story on solar flares and storms possibly causing power grid and communications failure. All the high tech toys and war equipment that the international corporate and banker owed US Government and military is Solar flares emitted by the sun on the morning of Jan. 23 concerned [...]

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Solar storm, largest since 2005, causes aurora borealis over Canada, Britain

The influx of particles from the CME amplified the solar radiation storm such that it is now considered the largest since October 2003. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has categorized it as a “strong” — or S3 (with S5 24 (Bloomberg) — Delta Air Lines Inc. is rerouting as many as eight transpolar flights between [...]

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Solar storm to bombard Earth on Tuesday

Tweet The strongest solar storm in six years could disrupt satellites, power grids and navigation when it reaches Earth early Tuesday, the nation's Space Weather Prediction Center says. The sun 2012 at 10:57 PM Obama will save us all. All hail most powerful ruler! by voting taxpayer Location: gj on Jan 23, 2012 at 04:51 [...]

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Solar storm peaks at strong level; inside space weather forecasting

The sun erupts with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle in this NASA handout photo taken on March 6, 2012. This flare was categorized as an X5.4, making it the second largest flare — after an X6.9 on August 9, Well, back during the last solar maximum, back in 2003 around [...]

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Solar Flares Shake Earth’s Magnetic Field And Boost Northern Lights, Solar …

The largest solar storm in five years has engulfed Earth, but scientists say the planet has lucked out so far. The storm arrived more peacefully Thursday morning than it could have. Scientists say that could change as the storm spends the day shaking A solar storm heading to Earth today may affect radios, flights and [...]

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‘Titanic’ director James Cameron to attempt historic ocean dive

Only two people have ever been down to the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific and the deepest part of the Ocean some seven miles underwater. There, the external pressure is that of 1000 atmospheres Filmmaker James Cameron is preparing to descend to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench in his specially designed [...]

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Solar flares: Be glad you’re on Earth, not Mars

Some experts were worried that unusually large solar flares might trigger storms in the atmosphere that would wreak havoc with global electronics. Those storms have the potential to disable power grids and computer chips in everything from WASHINGTON — One of the strongest solar storms in years engulfed Earth early Thursday, but scientists say the [...]

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Solar storm lights up northern skies

A geomagnetic storm is expected to hit the Earth tonight, potentially resulting in the northern lights dancing across Minnesota and Wisconsin. So far, the disruption caused by this week's solar storm seems to be minimal, but skywatchers are maximizing the opportunity to see auroral fireworks — and tonight just might be prime time for the [...]

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Solar storm hits our planet … but so far, no problem

Reuters: "A strong geomagnetic storm is racing from the Sun toward Earth, and its expected arrival on Thursday could affect power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite navigation systems, U.S. space weather A solar storm heading to Earth today may affect radios, flights and people's moods. It may also hurt stocks, according to a study [...]

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