Solar flares are very common, Sun gets to peak of its activity of 11-year circle..., say scientists

Ahmedabad Gujarat: On Solar Storm, Scientific Officer of Institute for Plasma Research Centre Dr Ravi A V Kumar says, "Solar Flares are very common, it happens all the time...It happens when the sun gets to the peak of its activity of 11-year circle...After every 11 years, the activity of the sun goes from high to low and in 2025 the activity is going to be at its peak...The chance of solar flares coming out at this time are more...These are highly charged particles of plasma which can travel at very high velocities... The faster these particles move the more dangerous they are...Since these are charged particles from the sun they can get deflected from Earth's magnetic field...Some of these deflected particles can come to polar regions of the earth which then interact with gas molecules in the upper atmosphere and they produce a colour called Aurora...When there is a very strong solar flare like the one which happened yesterday when combined with the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field produces Auroras..People are very fortunate to even see this right upto Northern Italy...The Aurora could also be seen in Hanle Ladakh...
Flares come and go, they don't affect us directly but can affect our day-to-day activities like communication as the satellites can be disrupted...Satellite TV signals and radio communication could also get disrupted..."
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