What is a solar storm and how can it affect your daily life?
The origins of the solar storm Image courtesy of Stable Diffusion Solar storms: A journey to the heart of the Sun Solar storms originate in the turbulent depths of the Sun. Imagine an immense balloon of molten gas driven by colossal and mysterious forces. Inside, energy is produced by nuclear reactions that transform hydrogen into helium. This process unleashes an enormous amount of energy, creating convulsive movements of plasma, a hot soup of electrons and protons. The charged particles move and swirl, generating complex magnetic fields. These magnetic fields play a crucial role in the birth of solar storms. The theater of solar flares Solar flares occur at the Sun’s visible surface, the photosphere, and above it, in the solar corona, the outermost region of the solar atmosphere. When a magnetic field is twisted and stretched by the accumulation of energy, it suddenly reorganizes, releasing phenomenal amounts of energy in the form of radiation…
