The northern Lights will be intensely more visible in a large part of the territory of Canada over the weekend a few days ago, NASA reported that the Sun had a mighty explosion.
As we told you in The news of the truth, an aurora borealis occurs when the Charged particles from the sun collide with Earth’s atmosphere and our magnetic field directs them towards the poles. It is called boreal at the North Pole and southerly for the South.
So, as the Sun experienced one of the most intense explosions on October 28, the federally funded AuroraMAX Observatory in Yellowknife said in a social media post that the Northern Lights could be visible over the major part of Canadian territory.
Parts of southern Canada won’t be able to see as much of the Northern Lights
The only areas of the country that are not included in the publication issued by the observatory are the most al on from Ontario, the Southwest Vancouver Island and parts of Southeast Atlantic provincesincluding all Province of Nova Scotia.
But the observatory, which is run through a partnership between the University of Calgary, the city of Yellowknife, the Canadian Space Agency and a local astronomy organization, says lights might still be visible in those parts of the country.
Eric Donovan, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary who studies the origins of the Northern Lights, said the sightings suggest that a great magnetic storm this may make the aurorae more visible in the south than usual.
“There is a very good chance… There will be very good northern lights in large parts of Canada that you don’t see very often,” he said, adding that the sky must be clear and other factors play a role.
Why will the solar explosion make the Northern Lights more visible?
According to Donovan, the dawn is driven by the solar wind, And the solar wind is a gas of ionized particles that comes out of the sun all the time. Therefore, the expert explains that “what is happening is thatThe gas interacts with the earth’s magnetic fielday this process extracts energy from the solar wind ”.
“What people are waiting for tonight is that there will be a significant increase in the speed at which energy is sent to this system. This means that the solar wind is more intense, has more charged particles and is moving faster, ”he explained. That would do The Northern Lights are brighter and more visible in a larger area, he said, and would do so further south of Canada.
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