Northern Lights could reappear next week in a short "opportunity window"
The geomagnetic storm should be dusk on June 6.
During the Mother's Day weekend, Stargazers had a leading line at one of the most spectacular natural light shows To honor the night sky of our country. The kaleidoscopic display has been seen in more than a dozen American states - an extremely rare occurrence for Americans, because the northern lights are generally the brightest and the most complete Aurora area , which extends over Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Canada. But for those who missed it, listen: the forecasters predict that The second act of Aurora Borealis is a few days.
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According to Space , northern lights occur when "dynamic particles of the sun Slam in the upper atmosphere of the earth At speeds of up to 45 million MPH. "The fluorescence of these dance particles can be visible in shades of pink, purple, blue and green.
"Each type of atom or molecule, whether it is atomic hydrogen or a molecule such as carbon dioxide, absorbs and radiates its own unique set of colors, which is similar to the way each human being has a unique set of fingerprints "," Billy Vteets , the director of the Dyer Observatory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said Space .
The chromatic intensity of the North Enlightenment depends on the lunar sentence of the Moon. As with any spectacle of celestial light, a skyless sky will provide a larger stage (AKA, darker). This makes the event more visible for stargazers on the ground - as was the case with the spectacle of Mother's Day, which occurred just after the new May moon when the sky was already particularly dark, by Living science .
However, the light show of May 12 was a group effort. According to Live science , it was "the result of at least five solar storms that struck the earth simultaneously, all from a massive solar stain known as the active region 3664." Also known as AR3664 / AR13664, the dark patch is estimated at 15 times wider than the earth.
For many astrophiles, the Northern Lights are really a unique phenomenon. But supposedly, AR3664 / AR13664 will be again "oriented towards earth" when the sun turns on its axis on June 6.
"It will be aligned well," French Ryan , a solar physicist from the Colorado National Solar Observatory (NSO), said Live science . "As soon as the solar spot begins to appear, we will enter the opportunity window [to see Auroras]."
If the Auroras make themselves known, this will happen when the AR3664 / AR13664 will reach the center of the sun. Living science The reports are at this time that "the Sun-Earth system will be the most connected", and the probability of a display of the Northern Enlightenment is at its peak.
"This is exactly where it produced all these big rockets," said French. "But in theory, if you had a large enough eruption, even if it is on the left of the center of the sun, we could always obtain the edge of this impact."
It takes about 27 days for the moon to end its orbit around the earth, which means that the next new moon will occur around June 6. But scientists suggest verifying the night sky in the previous days because if the geomagnetic storm of June is something like May, we could be in several nights of northern lights.
Although the northern lights are visible to the naked eye, you will have a clearer view in the regions which are not populated by city lights, pollution and clouds.
