From Local 3 News: Cosmic events, or more accurately, a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun treated those living in the
From Local 3 News: Cosmic events, or more accurately, a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun treated those living in the South to a rare sight: the famed Northern Lights.
The ejections can also disrupt communications on Earth.
The severe geomagnetic storm was rated as a rare G5, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a geomagnetic storm watch Thursday evening.
Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis.
When the energized particles from coronal mass ejections reach Earth’s magnetic field, they interact with gases in the atmosphere to create different colored light in the sky.
View Local 3’s full gallery of Northern Lights photos HERE.
