An Electric Look at a Solar Flare on the Sun
It always makes for a beautiful video whenever the suns lashes out with a solar flare. Here’s one from earlier this month. Read More >>
It always makes for a beautiful video whenever the suns lashes out with a solar flare. Here’s one from earlier this month. Read More >>
It would be pretty. And then pretty terrifying.
Before the doomsayers say anything, all it'll do is cause minor disruption to our communications systems.
We all seem to still be alive and well after that solar flare and radiation storm the Earth was bombarded with earlier in the week. In fact it just seems to have created some of the most amazing aurora photos ever. But NASA’s latest sun video shows the awesome raw power of our star in an ethereal beauty like no other.
Looks like we’re in for a stormy solar Saturday, as the sun has erupted in our direction again. It shot out an M3.2-class solar flare towards our humble little planet (as you can see above). The resulting stream of charged particles should crash into Earth’s magnetic field on Saturday, and could cause the odd blackout, pretty lights, and conspiracy theorists to go nuts, again.
