The Sun's warping of Earth's magnetic protections could explain how aurora occur in other parts of our solar system.
Our Sun is a dynamic star, constantly bombarding our planet with charged particles that cause aurorae and geomagnetic storms. Now, a team of researchers found that an energetic outburst by our star disrupted our planet’s magnetic field for two hours in 2023.But that wasn’t the case in late April of last year, when NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission observed an Alfvén speed faster than the CME that swept towards our planet.
These structures—called Alfvén wings—acted as a highway transporting plasma between the Sun and Earth’s magnetosphere, according to an“The wings are highways for Earth’s plasma to be lost to the Sun, and for the plasma from the foot points of the Sun’s erupted flux rope to access Earth’s ionosphere,” the team added.
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