Space weather forecasters predict that the vibrant activity will continue Monday night across portions of the United States and Europe. The activity already brought a strong geomagnetic storm Sunday night and could continue with moderate activity.
Auroras are a visible manifestation of the sun’s impact on the Earth. They are generated during a geomagnetic storm, when a surge of energy and particles from the sun temporarily collides with Earth’s magnetosphere, an invisible magnetic shield that protects our planet from high-energy radiation and damaging solar particles. This surge of solar particles compresses the magnetosphere, changing the configuration of Earth’s magnetic field lines.
In this case, the surge of energy and particles came from “a big tangled-up mess” from the sun in recent days, Steenburgh said. Over the weekend, two explosions from the sun called coronal mass ejections occurred in quick succession and made a beeline for Earth.
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