shooting off sun flares

It's January 23rd, 2012. The sun is shooting off sun flares and they are headed directly towards the earth. Shooting off sun flares is a natural phenom for the mother of the solar system but usually the solar flares are not headed directly for our earth. Not since 2005 have such intensive solar flares been headed directly towards the earth is what news broadcast are telling us this time around.

Bombarding earth with solar radiation sounds alarming. Electromagnetic waves are also responsible for producing those wonderful northern lights and this time these aurora borealis are being seen in the far south of Canada. People in Toronto Canada are not used to experiencing natural light shows of this type.

Sun flares are responsible for interfering with electrical grids and magnetic sources which is what should worry us humans who have recently become accustomed, almost addicted, to carrying around our cell phones and connections to the internet.

This episode of the sun shooting sun flares, an M9 class solar flare according to scientists, has prompted at least some airports to reroute flights.

According to the Guardian power grids and satellites could be affected when the sun is shooting of solar flares.

That first, moderate flare triggered the release of billions of tons of charged particles from the sun's atmosphere, now travelling towards the earth at speeds of up to 1400 miles per second, according to Nasa's Goddard Space Weather Centre.

Massive solar storm hurtles towards earth