Loud explosions from the Sun has been releasing a storm of radiation at levels never witnessed since 2006, and will likely lead to geomagnetic storm activity, on Wednesday or Thursday pm tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service.
"This one is a little dramatic," said Bill Murtagh, a program coordinator at the Center for Space Weather Forecasting NWS solar flare as he described the M-2 (medium size) that peaked at 1:41 am U.S. Eastern time or 05:41 GMT.
"We see the initial flare up and it was not that big but it later emerged eruption associated with it - we get the radiation energy particles that flow in and we found a large corona mass injection," he said.
"You can see all the material erupted from the Sun so it is quite awesome to behold."
Solar dynamics observatory NASA launched last year and produced the pictures and high definition video about the incident, described as "visually impressive," but emphasized that the eruption did not directly lead to the Earth. Its influence is expected to minimal.
"Large cloud particles swell and fall back as if covering an area almost half the surface of the Sun," NASA said in a statement.
Murtagh said the space weather analysts look carefully to see whether the incident will cause a clash of the Sun and the Earth's magnetic field which was about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers).
"Part of our task here is to monitor and determine whether it is directed towards the Earth's events because it is basically the material that exploded out of the gas contains a combined magnetic field," he said.
"Within a day or more from now. We estimate some of the material that hit us and created a geomagnetic waves," he said.
"We do not expect it to be really devastating, but it could become a kind of multilevel moderate storm."
Space Weather Forecasting Centre said the event was "estimated to cause the level of geomagnetic storm activity G1 (minor) to G2 (moderate) tomorrow, June 8, starting at 18:00 GMT (Friday at 1 am GMT)."
Each of geomagnetic storm activity likely will be finished within 12-24 hours.
"Solar radiation storms include significant contributions from high energy protons, which first emerged since December 2006," said NWS.
A total of 12 satellites and spacecraft to monitor heliosfer and one instrument in particular in the review month of NASA's orbiter that measures radiation and its effects.
"Of course as long (two years) living this mission, the event is paramount," said Harlan Spence, principal investigator on the cosmic ray telescope for the influence of radiation or Crater.
"This is really interesting because, ironically as we develop the mission, at first we thought we would launch closer to the Sun, at best, when particles of this great sun appears," said Spence told AFP.
"Instead we drove into historic orbit the Sun, at least took so long to wake up," he said.
"It's interesting and important because it shows the Sun to return to a more active state."
The resulting geomagnetic storm could cause some disruption in the lattice energy satellites that operate "posotioning global system" and other devices, and can create some changes in flight routes across the pole, said Murtagh.
"Normally that would not cause a big problem, it only requires management," he said.
"If you fly from the United States to Asia, flying over the North Pole, there are more than a dozen flights per day," he said.
"During large radiation storms are some airlines will reroute flights away from polar regions for security reasons to ensure they can continue to communicate.
"The people who operate the satellite will also be watching this case because the geomagnetic storm could be contrary to the satellites in a variety of ways, both the satellite itself and the signal coming from the panel receiver (receiver)."
Aurora borealis (northern lights) and aurora australis (southern lights) are likely to also be seen in the last few hours on 8 or 9 June, so NASA .*
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