Sunny storm brought a great Northern Lights

Sunny storm brought a great Northern Lights

Photographer Jeff Berkes made this photo in southern Pennsylvania, just 27 miles west of Philadelphia during moonsets.

Brilliant bands of green, purple and pink lit up the sky across Canada and most of the northern states of the United States on Monday night. It was a brilliant aurora after the strongest solar storm.

The lights were visible far south from Philadelphia and in the north of New Jersey the night before last (June 22). And the astronauts on board the International Space Station had the opportunity to contemplate a stunning sky light show. The solar storm that caused the aurora was declared at the level of G4. Given that the highest possible level in the ranking is G5.

The aurora was caused by powerful explosions of particles emitted by the sun, which later collide with the atmosphere of the earth. At the same time, the solar storm does not stop and there is a possibility that the aurora should be visible at night on June 23 for residents of the Canals and parts of the United States. Shining is the result of charged particles dancing on the upper part of the atmosphere of our planet. Photographer Jeff Berkes filmed photos of the northern lights over a field in southern Philadelphia. In an e-mail to Space.com, Berkesh said that it was the most intense northern lights that he could observe in this place.

Meteorologist Eric Holtaus wrote in an article for the publishing house “Slate” that the release of the coronal mass provoked two more smaller releases in the last week. All charged particles went to the atmosphere of the Earth, as a result of this we can see over the whole of Canada and part of the USA

The sunstorm broke out on Sunday afternoon, June 21st. Then fiery flashes began to depart from the Sun with the release of a large amount of coronal mass, which is a stream of charged particles. The size and strength of this particle ejection received an "impressive" characteristic from scientists working at the NASA mission called Advanced Composition Explorer.

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