Skywatchers were in for a surprise treat on Wednesday night, with the southern lights visible in many parts of Australia and New Zealand.
The Aurora Australi swirling across the sky resulted from what has been called a “cannibal” solar storm.
On social media, Aurora watchers shared images from across the country, as far north as Port Macquarie in New South Wales.
In Australia, the storm – due to a strong burst of energy from the sun – reached the “G4 Geomagnetic Storm Stund” on Wednesday’s According to the Bureau of Meteorology’s SPACE WEUTHANE FORESTING CENTER.
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In the UK, the local event reached a g5 rating in the early hours of Wednesday morning on the Geological Survey (BGS) – the highest Storm in the Geomagnetic Storm.
Dr Laura Driesen from the Sydney Institute for astronomy said there was “a very strong and active sunspot on the sun at the moment”.
Since 9 November, the sun has released two strong coronal mass ejections – explosions of high-energy plasma – on earth.
“They happened at two different times in the ninth and 10th,” Driesen said. “Basically, one was 10th faster, so one got it in ninth.”
BGS said CNN: “The second took over the first and they became united when they came to earth. Hence, the term ‘cannibalised’, as the second strengthened the first.”
The double hit of the cannibal Solar Storar resulted in the greatest CREATED GEOEELELTIC FIELD To record in the UK since BGS records began in 2012.
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According to BGS, an electric field on the surface of the earth can be the result of solar storms, and create electrical currents that have the potential to damage the transformers of the grid grid.
In the US, it also postponed the launch of two mars-gound Spacecraft. Blue Origin, the Space Tech Company behind the mission vehicle, said in a post on X: “Due to the potential effects of the Spacecraft, the launch of the NASA launch during the weather during the weather during the weather conditions.
Northern lights displays, also known as Aurora Borealis, can also be seen in Northern Hemisphere.
Auroras originate from disturbances in the earth’s magnetic field, known as the magnetosphere.
“You see charged particles that fall into the Earth’s magnetic field and actually follow some of our gases and dust, a Swinburne abuse of Swinburne University, said.