Solar Storms Seen In 1582 Could Hit Earth Again And Cause Damage | Warn Scientists | What are solar storms |

 Experts predict that the solar storm which hit Earth on March 8, 1582, could happen again in the twenty-first century.

If the great fire that erupted in the sky over hundreds of cities across Europe and Asia in 1952 happens, it would cause billions of dollars in damage and knock out power grids all over the world.

The event illuminated the sky in violent red light for three consecutive nights, according to one of the sources.

A great fire appeared in the sky to the North, and lasted three nights, in early March, 1582. Across the globe in feudal Japan, observers in Kyoto noted the same burning red display in their skies too. Similar accounts of strange night time lights were recorded in Leipzig, Germany; Yecheon, South Korea; and a dozen other cities across Europe and East Asia.

While very little had been known about this peculiar celestial event until now, scientists at Cornell University have recently found a number of eye-witness accounts from people who saw it for themselves. All that part of the sky appeared burning in blazing flames. Nobody remembered having seen something like that. At midnight, great fire rays appeared above the castle which were terrible.

The following solar storm, in 1909, is believed to have been far more powerful, and has been described as one of the most intense events of the 20th century, according to Universe Today.

People at the time were not aware that the event was a massive solar storm, but modern astronomers use storms to help predict future solar activity.

The solar storm that struck Earth on March 8, 1582, comes similar to the one that occurred in 1909 and 1989, indicating that it occurs only once in the century and one or two can be expected in the twenty first century.

                                                                               

                                                                              

What are solar storms?

Solar storms occur when the Sun emits huge bursts of energy in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. These phenomenon send a stream of electrical charges and magnetic fields toward the Earth at a speed of about three million miles per hour.

In a matter of just a few minutes they heat material to many millions of degrees and produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, including from radio waves to x-rays and gamma rays.

Solar flares are different to 'coronal mass ejections' (CMEs), which were once thought to be initiated by solar flares. CMEs are huge bubbles of gas threaded with magnetic field lines that are ejected from the Sun over the course of several hours. Although some are accompanied by flares, it is now known that most CMEs are not associated with flares.

Should we be worried about future solar storms?

 Perhaps at the very least, we ought to be prepared for them, just like any other natural disaster. Since the 1989 power outage, the power generation industry has begun working on mitigation techniques, and taken preventative measures to make power grids more resistant to solar weather, but it’s hard to be fully prepared. When the next big solar storm comes, and it will come someday, we may not be fully ready for it but,

Solar storms aren’t dangerous to humans on Earth’s surface. These storms are awesome to examine, but they cannot harm our human bodies as long as we remain on the surface of Earth, where we’re protected by Earth’s blanket of atmosphere. Remember, there’s every reason to believe that storms on the sun have been happening for billions of years, since the sun and Earth came to be. If that’s so, then all life on Earth evolved under their influence.

Although the most powerful solar storms send coronal mass ejections (CMEs), containing charged particles, into space. If Earth happens to be in the path of a CME, the charged particles can slam into our atmosphere, disrupt satellites in orbit and even cause them to fail, and douche high-flying airplanes with radiation. They can disrupt telecommunications and navigation systems. They have the potential to affect power grids, and have been known to black out entire cities, even entire regions.