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Getting more Solar Storms

Solar storms are often mentioned could affect the situation on Earth. However, whether actual solar storm and why the storm could become a problem?

The Sun is a collection of the gas that emits radiation of all kinds, ranging from radiation that can be used for the photosynthesis of plants to high-energy particles that can destroy anything that passed.

Sometimes, a magnetic storm on the surface of giant stars can lead to an explosion that threw flares or one-sixth solar energy generated every second.


If the storm is strong enough, it will happen coronal mass ejections (CME), which is a large plasma cloud moving at speeds of millions of miles per hour. Plasma cloud is composed of energetic protons and electrons, with the addition of small amounts of helium, oxygen and metals.

At the time of the storm the sun, an explosion of the sun (solar flares) will be accompanied by bursts of electromagnetic radiation (including radio waves and visible, plus gamma, ultraviolet, and X rays).

Approximately 10 to 20 minutes after the initial explosion will be followed by the full blast of energy protons. Then, 10 to 30 hours ahead, a CME will hit the magnetosphere (magnetic field lining) the Earth and cause the flow of electricity along the oil pipeline and high voltage power lines.

These events could have put out the electricity, but most regions on Earth could watch the light show in the sky, like the aurora borealis.

Earth has a magnetosphere as a protective coating. And typically, a layer that surrounds the Earth's magnetic field has been able to absorb the harmful radiation from the sun, and prevent it reaching out life on Earth.

Then how solar storms can be a problem in the present?

Today, the modern world and are connected to rely on speed electronic connections between people in different countries, and is powered by electricity.

"Space weather can affect the economic and human security anywhere on this planet are connected. In addition, electric-powered gas explosion that moves from the Sun with a speed of five million miles per hour, can strike without warning," said John Holdren and John Beddington, Chief Scientific Advisors for Barack Obama and British administration, in 2011 ago.

In a speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, Holdren and Beddington also outlines the major solar storm events of the past.

"In 1921, deadly space weather and triggering communication kebakarandi northeastern United States. In March 1989, geomagnetic storm caused power lines Hydro-Quebec Canada collapsed in 90 seconds, making millions of people in the dark for nine hours," he explained.

"In 2003, two intense storms moving from the Sun to Earth in just 19 hours, causing widespread power and influence Swedish satellite, broadcast communications, aviation and navigation companies," they added.



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