After a relatively low solar flare activity since June 2013, the Sun unexpectedly made significant solar flares outburst on October 27 and 28, 2013. The picture shows a bright flare outburst [An X1.0-class] from the Sun’s surface as seen exactly at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The outburst releases harmful radiations which can physically affect humans but fortunately, this particular radiation cannot penetrate through Earth’s atmosphere. Also, some radiations that can reach the ground are strong enough to interfere radio signals on Earth.
[Image source: SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory ]
I’m choosing to see the beauty in this – with a painter’s eye!
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Very beautiful… but very dangerous.
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That is an stunning image! It makes you wonder if this kind of radiation will penetrate through Earth’s atmosphere in the future
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Yeah, if we are inattentive about the ozone depletion, the radiation will permeate our atmosphere, one day.
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I understand that the giant solar flares also make climate change long lasting beyond just green house effect.
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Yeah, that’s right. By the way, let’s just hope energetic charged particles do not pass through our atmosphere as it is the most dangerous among all the emissions.
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