Solar Storms and Earth’s Auroras

#Repost///@itsthemind: Solar Storms and Earth's AurorasVideo Source: NASA Video (https://youtu.be/HJfy8acFaOg)Reel montage: @itsthemindVideo transcript:"The Sun acts as an enormous power plant. The energy is created deep inside the core of the Sun where the temperature is over 14 million degrees and the pressure is so enormous that Hydrogen atoms are squeezed together into another element, Helium.This nuclear reaction releases energy. The light radiates outward from the core of the Sun in the outer layers. The heat moves to the surface in huge eddies called convection cells.These electrical currents of charged gas create magneticfields inside the Sun. In some places strong magnetic fields push their way up through the surface and they slow down the eddies of hot gas. The surface cools and darker sunspots appear. The electrically charged gas is called Plasma. The Plasma drags the magnetic field further outwards. The magnetic field stretches and twists like a rubber band then the rubber band breaks. Several billion tons of Plasma is hurled out from the Sun -this is called a Solar Storm.The Solar Storm can reach speeds over eight million kilometres per hour. After six hours it blows past the planetMercury. After 12 hours the planet Venus and after 18 hours the solar storm reaches Earth. When the solar storm reaches our planet, something strange happens. An invisible shield, the Earth's magnetic field, deflects the storm. The magnetic fields couple together and create afunnel for the gas streams down on the daylight side of the pole. This is the daylight Aurora. The magnetic fields stretch further back and couple together. The magnetic rubber band breaks and gas from the solar storm streams along the magnetic lines towards the poles on thenight side. This is the nighttime Aurora."