Svake sekunde, 1,5 miliona tona solarnog materijala, koji putuje brzinom od 100 milja u sekundi, ispaljuje Sunce. Zemljino magnetsko polje odbija većinu, ali ne sve.

Sunčev vjetar, tok naelektrisanih čestica, teče brzinom od 447 km/s  i dok nas magnetno polje štiti, neke čestice i dalje izazivaju aurore i geomagnetne oluje.

Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material, traveling at 100 miles per second, shoot off the sun. Earth's magnetic field deflects most of it, but not all. The solar wind, a stream of charged particles, flows at 447 km/s (1 million mph), and while the magnetic field protects… pic.twitter.com/40CSNZYesU

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