The northern lights, which residents of the Urals, Moscow region, Leningrad and other regions could observe last night, were caused by substances released into the Sun. Boris Filippov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, researcher at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported this to socialbites.ca.
“There’s nothing very unusual about this, it happens. Why did it happen tonight? A few days ago, material eruptions occurred on the Sun. We actually didn’t expect this cloud to fall to the ground, but it caught up unexpectedly. It caused a magnetic disturbance and a precipitation of particles in the atmosphere that caused a glow called an aurora,” the scientist explained.
On the night of Wednesday, September 13, residents of central Russia saw the northern lights. Photos of the natural phenomenon were published by eyewitnesses on social networks and Telegram channels.
A powerful solar eruption was previously reported. will cause Auroras on Mars.