Mysterious shock wave RIPS Earth’s magnetosphere
Last night, a shock wave flew into the Earth, which split its magnetosphere, the region that protects our planet from harmful radiation.
The origin of the shock wave is unknown, but astronomers believe it originated from a burst of energetic and highly magnetized superheated gas released by the Sun, also known as a coronal mass ejection (CME).
The release could be came out of the spot AR3165On December 14, at least eight solar flares were launched into space, causing a blackout over the Atlantic Ocean. space weather.
Until scientists sound the alarm, the crack can remain open for hours and let the solar wind through.
The sunspot crackled on December 14, and then an M6-class explosion hit the Earth.
A mysterious shock wave hit the Earth’s magnetic field and split the region protecting our planet from cosmic radiation. Although the origin of the shock wave is unknown, scientists believe that it comes from our Sun.
M-class flares are classified as medium. These events, however, could lead to short-term radio outages, which happened last week over the Atlantic.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a probe that studies the Earth’s Sun, recorded eruptions from a sunspot – a dark region cooler than other parts of the surface – that ejected streams of plasma one after another.
Bright flashes of light were seen emanating from a sunspot, the likely culprit for the shock wave heading toward Earth.
Shock waves are produced when a fast moving pulse of the solar wind passes through a slow moving solar wind and is made up of compressed and heated gases.
CMEs can eject billions of tons of corona material from the surface of the Sun. The material consists of plasma and magnetic fields.
Such eruptions can cause space weather that can disrupt satellites and power grids on Earth and harm unprotected astronauts.
The Earth’s magnetosphere is located in its magnetic field, which extends thousands of miles into space, and its magnetism influences everything from global communication to animal migration to weather patterns.
The current crack is setting the stage for possible G1 class geomagnetic storms.
A geomagnetic storm is a significant disturbance of the Earth’s magnetosphere, resulting from a very efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind with the space environment surrounding the Earth.
However, a G1 class storm is the weakest of all storms.
In 2022, there was increased activity on the Earth’s Sun: in April, there was the most powerful solar flare in five years.
The Sun appears to be entering an active period of its 11-year activity cycle, which began in 2019 and is expected to peak in 2025.
On December 14, solar flares were fired at the Sun, causing a blackout over the Atlantic Ocean.
Solar flares – bursts of electromagnetic radiation traveling at the speed of light – typically reach our planet within eight minutes of leaving the solar atmosphere.
The most powerful category is X flares, followed by M-class flares on 14 December.
Solar physicist Keith Strong tweeted: “THREE MORE M FLASHES: M6, M3 and M2, all from AR3165.
This equates to 8 M flashes to date. They seem to be getting bigger, is there an X flash in the near future? Stay up to date.’
The ejection may have been fired from sunspot AR3165 (lower right), from which at least eight
Earth’s magnetic field protects us from harmful radiation emitted by the sun
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