(Washington)-a puzzling solar storms and colorful aurora borealis unusual south to, surprising space weather experts and treatment skywatchers a rare spectacular treatment.
Storm chasing cameraman filmed strange astronomical phenomena programs, on Monday night in Arkansas. In Kentucky and Georgia reports they witnessed local television stations. NASA a special automatic camera, but the image every minute, the Alabama huntsville sky, arrested 20 minutes of vibrant red and green of the aurora borealis.
In Arkansas, Brian Emfinger so-called "very vivid, I have seen the most vivid of 15 to 20 minutes, really mad."
Emfinger, storm chaser, captured dynamic image at night cameras in Arkansas, at the zack
He called it "a bigger trade", than a tornado ", because he saw the dozens of every year, this is only the second north ten years, he has already seen this south to the lamp.
"They are very rare events, said," NASA scientists bill cooke, who discovered in Alabama the archive of the aurora photos camera, and the Marshall space flight center Posting a blog. "We don't see them south to think that often."
In the federal space weather prediction center in Colorado boulder officials said they in the south to surprise. The center monitoring solar storms, which triggers the aurora.
Space weather forecast, the administrative Bob, he said, the sun the size of the storm, the light may not should already visible Iowa south. He said, storm only consider a "soft" size.
He called for unusual storm, its profound influence to the earth than expected almost eight hours. But time is only the United States to watch the perfect, he said.
And the levites, he said, "" the strength of the peak happened more than the United States as dark or dark, plus the clear sky, we do have significant aurora sightings. "The good time."
Huntsville, in the aurora last afternoon at 8:45 PM CDT fell from the, cook said. In Arkansas, after the sun had set the Emfinger soon, space weather warning. He saw the aurora, until after 11 PM, lasted
The aurora to start filming a magnetic field of solar wind storm from the sun. The wind hit the earth's magnetic field, and compression. This inspired oxygen and nitrogen electronic. And he said, the levites, when these stimulate electronic to calm down, they send out the red and green color.
Usually the sun can cause damage to the storm satellite and the grid. And he said, the levites, which don't.
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