Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Solar flares = Auroras!

A coronal mass ejection is headed towards earth which means a lot of us will be able to see auroras tonight! Theres nothing like looking out your window at 2am and seeing a HUGE green, eerie curtain waving in the sky.

The animation below is from Spaceweather.com. It boggles my mind that an explosion like that hurtles itself towards earth, causes a geomagnetic storm and leaves us with such awesomely weird displays of colour.

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