{"id":17096,"date":"2019-11-28T06:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=17096"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:39:09","slug":"creating-an-aurora-the-sun-sending-charged-particles-towards-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/creating-an-aurora-the-sun-sending-charged-particles-towards-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating an Aurora: the Sun sending charged particles towards the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17097\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" title=\"\"><figcaption> NASA Goddard&#8217;s Conceptual Image Lab\/K. Kim <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The creation of an aurora and Steve starts with the Sun sending a surge of charged particles towards Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This surge applies pressure on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org \u203a wiki \u203a Earth's_magnetic_field\">Earth\u2019s magnetic field<\/a>, which sends the Sun&#8217;s charged particles to the far side of Earth, where it is night-time. On this far, night side of Earth, Earth&#8217;s magnet field forms a distinctive tail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the tail stretches and elongates, it forces oppositely directed magnetic fields close together that join in an explosive process called magnetic reconnection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a stretched rubber band suddenly breaking, these magnetic field lines then snap back towards Earth, carrying charged particles along for the ride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These charged particles slam into the upper atmosphere, causing it to glow and generating the light we see as the aurora \u2014 and now possibly Steve. <\/p>\n  <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of an aurora and Steve starts with the Sun sending a surge of charged particles towards Earth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA-200x200.gif",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA-300x169.gif",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA-550x337.gif",550,337,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA-95x65.gif",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",600,337,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/carrying-particles_ESA.gif",150,84,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}