There has been a giant magnetic blowup on the sun . A solar flash that scientists have assort as “ extreme ” isblasting its waytowards our planet and could dispatch as early as Thursday .
Solar flares , as Gizmodo ’s Jamie Condliffeexplains , are a event of Coronal Mass Ejections — event where the sun spits out huge amounts of push in the frame of blood plasma . The resulting flares post clouds of charged particle racing through place .
Thankfully , the worst of it is determine to pass above the Earth , so it looks like even if it does cause modest disturbances in our power grids , and criticise satellites and radio receiver transmissions offline , it will only be irregular , pronounce Tom Berger , the director of the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder , Colorado , in aninterviewwith the Associated Press .
In any case , you will be able to see the flare in action live on the net . The Slooh Space Telescope will be transmitting television of the Sunday from Prescott , Arizona , beginning on Thursday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. EDT , reportsBusiness Insider .
Despite causing stunning auroras , solar storm can be extremely dangerous . They can knock out our electrical grids and satellites , leaving us in world darkness without telecommunications or GPS , potentially for years . Back in 2012 , wenarrowly escapedbeing fried after a solar storm passed straight through the Earth ’s orbit ( fortunately , we were on the other side of the sun ) . [ Business Insider ]
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