Hey people! I am back again with some great
information. I have searched over the internet to pick out what I wanted to
talk about next and it is Solar Flares. What is a solar flare exactly? Well a
solar flare is a sudden and rapid change in light and brightness. A solar flare
happens when the magnetic energy in the solar atmosphere is released rapidly.
With that being said, Corey Paul, an astronomer who was interviewed by fox
news, says that experts know after watching the Sun for hundreds of years that
the Sun goes through an eleven year cycle being relatively quiet and very
active and violent. 2013 is the peak of that eleven year cycle. To go more in
depth on what a solar flare really is let’s start in the atmosphere of the Sun.
The outer most atmosphere of the Sun called the Corona which is made of
rarefied gas. At the section of the Sun, this gas can be hundreds of millions
of degrees Kelvin and each flare can be 10 to 20 million degrees Kelvin and can
be up to 100 million degrees Kelvin. The flares, like I stated earlier,
coincide with the suns 11 year cycle. To explain further, when the Sun is at
its minimum flares are at their minimum. Now, in 2013, the Sun is at its peak
solar flare activity and could launch a large solar flare. This is important
because scientists are predicting that the Earth is in the direct line of one
of these flares. (I am not talking about the end of the world. I am not one of
those skeptics. As you may know I love space and talking about every aspect of
it.) The Earth has protection from these solar flares by something called the
magnetic field. This field surrounds us from north to south poles. Once a solar
flare hits the Earth, which is not an uncommon thing, the poles display a
magnificent display of lights at the poles. It is now 2013 and the Sun is
preparing itself to release one large flare which is expected to do trillions
of dollars of damage. NASA assures that the destruction of Earth will not occur.
NASA has records stating that even the strongest solar storms will not blow
away our atmosphere. So what will happen when a massive solar flare hits the
Earth? Basically, the flare comes at
Earth at millions of miles per hour. The flare is magnetized and Earth is also
like a big magnet. Once the flare hits the Earth, which would make electricity
go haywire. This can lead to wide spread blackouts, it can overload our
satellites and fry our radio and GPS transmissions, which has happened before
in 1858-59. Even with being hit like that within this amount of time still
would not be enough to destroy the Earth or the atmosphere. That was the last
gigantic flare which was 100 times bigger than the Earth. Evidence that we have
been hit before (and survived) is recorded in the glaciers, buried in time.
This shows we can get hit by something of this size and proportion and still
make it through and survive. You can look forward to a massive worldwide
blackout but not the end of the world.
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