Strong solar storm hurtles towards Earth

A fierce solar storm hurtles towards Earth. According to the calculations of the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Goettingen part of the plasma cloud is at a speed of 1500 kilometers per second go.

First foothills of the solar storm should have arrived around 5 clock on Thursday morning on the earth. About twelve hours later to the geomagnetic storm reached its peak. In Northern Europe, Northern lights could be seen in clear weather between Thursday evening and Friday morning.

In the everyday life of people but it is not expected to make their presence felt. "This is just times less likely," the astrophysicist Volker Bothmer of the University of Goettingen said on Thursday. While were as violent as this only at most 50 of 10,000 solar storms. However, had in October 2003, when planes were grounded, two storms in succession taken equal to the earth.

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