Sentences with phrase «auroral displays»

The colourful auroral displays often seen in polar latitudes are associated with bursts of high - energy particles generated by the Sun.

As it hit the Earth's magnetic field it created spectacular Auroral displays spreading from Europe to North America.

The amount of large auroral displays tends to follow the amount of sunspots with a lag of a couple of years.

Scientists think that closely - orbiting «hot Jupiters» will experience awesome auroral displays as plasma from their nearby star floods their atmospheres.

The last major solar flare was the «Carrington event» of 1859, which produced massive worldwide auroral displays and made the telegraph system do some scary things: Aside from delivering shocks to operators, telegraph paper caught fire, and there was enough residual juice in the system to send and receive telegrams even after they shut the network down.

Unlike the long, shimmering veils of typical auroral displays, these pulsating auroras are much dimmer and less common.

In addition to brilliant auroral displays, the electric telegraph - the Victorian internet — was found to be disrupted during periods with large geomagnetic storms.

At times of maximum solar activity, the magnetic ferment represented by sunspots frequently releases and leaps across space to Earth — to foment magnetic storms that disrupt communications networks and light the polar skies with auroral displays.

That storm produced spectacular auroral displays but caused no outages.

There, the charged particles strike molecules in Earth's atmosphere that release photons of various colors (red hues come from oxygen, for example) and light up polar regions in frequent auroral displays.

A strong auroral display, characteristic of a space storm, followed less than three minutes later.

This auroral display was due to a giant cloud of gas from the sun — a coronal mass ejection or CME — that collided with Earth's magnetic fields on Aug. 19, 2014, at 1:57 a.m. EDT.

Ground - based cameras called all - sky cameras, run by the University of Calgary and University of California, Berkeley, took pictures of large areas of the sky and captured Steve and the auroral display far to the north.