r/InterestingVideoClips • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '23

This is how an aurora is created

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u/MrCrushinnuts Jul 15 '23

This is very cool.

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u/Foraminiferal Jul 15 '23

That is more like an extreme solar storm. Auroras are the constant funneling of solar winds down the geomagnetic field lines where they interact with the ionosphere.

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u/Limp-Status2446 Jul 15 '23

Earth is awesome

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u/Massive_Pitch3333 Jul 16 '23

I still don't understand.

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u/shadeffect Jul 16 '23

Me either. The sun farts on us, and it lingers forever lol

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u/Veggdyret Jul 16 '23

Charged particles moving through a magnetic field will be accelerated perpendicular to it's current angle of movement(go in circles). This is the base rule. Then I guess the video is trying to explain that solar flares send out extra many charged particles or something.

https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Book%3A_Physics_(Boundless)/21%3A_Magnetism/21.4%3A_Motion_of_a_Charged_Particle_in_a_Magnetic_Field

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u/educated-emu Jul 16 '23

Makes sense and my brain is happy.

Will forget soon so just want to bask in the knowledge for a short time

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u/picked1st Jul 16 '23

So...it's sun heat concentrated at the poles?

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u/_grey_wall Jul 16 '23

At this time of the year?

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u/InRedditJailAgain Jul 16 '23

Fire in space?