The Sun and the Origins of the Solar System by Nicholas Faulkner
Author:Nicholas Faulkner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Earth’s rotating magnetic field is strong enough to block the solar wind, forming the magnetosphere, around which the solar particles and fields flow. On the side opposite to the Sun, the field lines stretch out in a structure called the magnetotail. When shocks arrive in the solar wind, a short, sharp increase in the field of Earth is produced. When the interplanetary field switches to a direction opposite Earth’s field, or when big clouds of particles enter it, the magnetic fields in the magnetotail reconnect and energy is released, producing the aurora borealis (northern lights).
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