#AURORA #FROM #UNEXPECTED #GEOMAGNETIC #STORM #WOW #YES ★ [1]
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WOW! Aurora Borealis [9] from Aykhal, Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia [10] on JANUARY 7th, 2015. PHOTO: Ruslan Akhmetsafin
"What happened? The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near our planet tipped south, opening a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in to fuel the strongest magnetic storm since Sept. 2014. NOAA analysts believe the fluctuation in IMF is related to the arrival of a CME originally expected to miss Earth." -Spaceweather.com [11] #OOPS [12]
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