New York, August 04: Scientists have warned that a solar tsunami is likely to hit the Earth anytime this weekend.
Solar Tsunami is an unusually complex magnetic eruption on the Sun. Scientists have feared that a large cloud of electrically charged particles due to solar tsunami could hit the earth.
According to the pictures received from NASA’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a solar blaze, comparable to the size of the earth, erupting above sunspot.
Solar Tsunami, also called a coronal mass ejection, was directly aimed towards earth.
Scientists believe that Solar Tsunami is not actual threat for the planet but it will damage satellites. However, wave of supercharged gas will likely to reach the earth but it can be stopped by natural magnetic shield protecting Earth.
It is expected that a “solar tsunami” racing 93 million miles across space, spark spectacular displays of the aurora or northern and southern lights.
What is Solar Tsunami?
A Moreton wave is the chromospheric signature of a large-scale solar coronal shock wave. Described as a kind of solar “tsunamis”, they are generated by solar flares.
The first solar Tsunami was spotted in 1959 but then it was hard to believe any such phenomenon on the Sun and it was thought to be an optical illusion.
But latest pictures released by NASA, confirms existence of Solar Tsunami. Incredibly powerful waves of plasma rippling across the surface of the sun and dubbed “solar tsunamis” were first observed years ago. Scientists have now confirmed, though, that they are really real.
When scientists first saw the phenomenon, it was hard to believe that a towering wave of hot plasma was actually racing along the sun’s surface. One of the waves rose up higher than the diameter of Earth and rippled out from a central point in a circular pattern millions of miles wide, like a gargantuan pattern of waves created by a pebble dropped in a pond.
——-Agencies