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Powerful Solar Storm Sets Off Amazing Northern Lights Show | Space.com
This one’s from Sweden.
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Solar Storm Puts Beautiful Northern Lights on Display [VIDEO]
This one’s from Norway. Click the link above to see NASA’s video of the solar storm itself.
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The geomagnetic storm unleashed overnight by the biggest solar flare so far this year will not make a direct hit on Earth, but will strike more of a glancing blow early Thursday, forecasters at the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., said this morning.
Radiation from the flare is already causing blackouts of high-frequency radio frequencies used by aircraft flying over the poles, according to the center. The flare is categorized in the X-5 class, the strongest type on scientists’ scales.
There could still be some impact to power grids, radio communications and satellites from the geomagnetic storm– known as a “coronal mass ejection”– but experts say the effects should be relatively minor. As a precaution, however, power grid operators have been alerted and airlines are rerouting flights away from normal polar routes, said NOAA space weather scientist Joseph Kunches.
The effects of the storm will last for about 24 hours, ending Friday, unless another flare appears in the meantime, Kunches said.
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