Back to Back Solar Flares May Trigger Intense Auroras, Radio Blackouts on Friday

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Here Comes the Sun: Back to Back Solar Flares May Trigger Intense Auroras, Radio Blackouts on Friday

By Susie Moore
July 07, 2023

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While the U.S. celebrated Independence Day on July 4, the sun held its own, more powerful firework display.

The stellar fireworks came in the form of two solar storms, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), that are partly directed at Earth and were observed by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) that orbits our star. CMEs can contain as much as a billion tons of plasma made up of charged particles and thus carry with them their own magnetic fields.

NASA has projected that the massive ejection of ionized gas called plasma will impact Earth by Friday (July 7). When the charged particles within CMEs strike the magnetic field of our planet, the magnetosphere, they can give rise to large disturbances called geomagnetic storms.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/07/07/here-comes-the-sun-back-to-back-solar-flares-may-trigger-intense-auroras-radio-blackouts-on-friday-n772431