The largest Solar Flare in Five years is currently effecting the Earth bringing a torrent of Northern Lights to a great deal of the world’s population, behind all this beauty though you can expect satellite degradation and impacts to communications worldwide. Plus there is the possible impacts on transcontinental flights going over the poles.
The video above is from our partner Solarwatcher and his analysis on this extreme event.
Every 11 years, the sun reaches it’s peak solar activity…we are currently going into a peak which will peak in 2013