Will appear over Moscow Northern lights?

Yesterday's solar flare was the most intense in 12 years. The last time a stronger event — the explosion of class X17 — occurred on 7 September 2005.

According to Sergey Bogachev from the laboratory of x-ray astronomy of the Sun LPI, exploded, vblizi center of the solar disk. Given the enormous size of the event, its consequences are clearly perceptible on the Ground.

The most spectacular phenomenon that would cause flash — the Aurora. The glittering lights in the planet's atmosphere is the result of the x — ray flux emitted from the surface of the Sun. Polar lights primarily illuminate the Earth's poles, but this time the lights can light up in the sky over mid-latitude and even over Moscow, reports TASS opinion Bogacheva.

Other effects of the huge flares less pleasant — disruptions and interference of radio navigation devices. When a couple of days before our planet will reach the clubs of the solar plasma in the Earth's atmosphere begins to rage magnetic storm.

Scientists warn that a strong outbreak may follow the other, the weaker but perceptible for humans explosions in the solar atmosphere.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»