Spectacular Northern Lights blaze as solar storm hits Earth

Mail Online ^ | March 9, 2012 | Rob Waugh

[marjiwoj]

A solar storm shook the Earth's magnetic field early today, but scientists said they had no reports of any problems with electrical systems.

After reports yesterday of the storm fizzling out, a surge of activity prompted space weather forecasters to issue alerts about changes in the magnetic field...

[marjiwoj]

Awesome pix - N.Lights and solar flares

[Sacajaweau]

Took my breath away!!

[KoRn]

[deadrock]

From one of the captions:Yellowknife in Australia's North West Territories is situated directly under the auroral 'oval', has some of the best northern lights viewing in the world. Truckers returning from the diamond mines enjoy the nighttime spectacle as they cruised down the ice road on Prosperous Lake

An ice road in Australia? Northern lights in the southern hemisphere? Yellowknife in Australia?

[momtothree]

Beautiful. For SunkenCiv.... I know he would enjoy them as well!

[davius]

Aurora Australis occurs in the southern hemisphere in the skies over Antarctica. While similar to the Northern Lights, the Southern Lights are upside down and backwards. This is obviously a cynically racist attempt to exclude the indigenous people’s of the region from their cultural heritage. Auroral justice now! U.S. out of North America!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Forget it. They’re rolling.

[SunkenCiv]

So, I guess the entire planet's communication system was destroyed, eh? Dang. ;') Thanks momtothree!

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks momtothree! An “extra, extra” to the APoD members.

[left that other site]

Spectacular!

[TheOldLady]

Spectacular! Thanks for the post and ping. [smiles]

All we can do is admire the aurorae since all our electronic equipment has been rendered useless by the solar tantrum.