Solar storms creat beautiful uroras

STOCKHOLM, mastegar.com - High energy particles from the Sun's outburst get to Earth, Tuesday (24/1/2012) night sight, have created admirable in northern hemisphere sky. Electromagnetic waves that penetrate the atmosphere created colorful light called aurora borealis.

Astronomers and not waste the opportunity the traveler sees a rare sight. In fact, there are up to hire the ship for a better look of the aurora or fjord Lake in northern Scandinavia.

"It's really awesome. I see the aurora for the first time 40 years ago and this is the most beautiful, "said John Mason, astronomers from the United Kingdom, on the deck of the ship MS Midnatsol, in a fjord in Northern Norway.

Tour guides in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, Andreas Hermansson, aurora, said this time it is the largest in the last six years. He and his entourage of tourists using a bus successful enjoy auroras with the dominance of the dancing in the sky green on Tuesday afternoon for about an hour.

In fact, aurora was reportedly visible from areas further South, such as in Ireland and the United Kingdom, before the Sun storm particles up to the atmosphere. However, according to physicist Doug Biesecker of Meteorological Centres, such AS light as possible due to the solar wind that brought a wave of electrically charged particles and not the storm the Sun.

Aurora borealis this time caused an explosion on sunspots 1402, Monday (23/1/2012) at 10.59 PM. The explosion was the strongest since 2005, entered into a class M-9 a.k.a was nearing the highest grade (X-Extreme). As a result of the blast, despite high energy particles and pebbles while letting the masses Corona (CME) that moves with speeds of up to 2,200 kilometres per second. The storm the sun always look out for because it can cause damage to the satellite and communication tools.

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