Great video! Just a small addition: Solar flares are not quite the reason for geomagnetic activity (and therefore aurora). Solar flares generally have a good chance to launch a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into space, sometimes on an earth directed trajectory. Those are the cause for the aurora. Even large X-Class solar flares can be impulsive and nothing is launched while a smaller M-Class can launch a bigger CME at our planet causing aurora and significant geomagnetic activity. Sometimes a CMEs doesn't even come from a solar flare at all and is caused by a filament eruption in the chromosphere of the sun. Another factor for the launch of a CME is the duration of a solar flare and if there was a good magnetic reconnection. The flares itself are essentially bright flashes of electromagnetic radiation in different wavelenghts of light, from radio, visible, UV, EUV and X-ray etc. and they release lots of energy in the form of light. Sometimes that energy also releases said CMEs. Have a nice day and i left you a sub! :)
Great video! Just a small addition: Solar flares are not quite the reason for geomagnetic activity (and therefore aurora). Solar flares generally have a good chance to launch a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into space, sometimes on an earth directed trajectory. Those are the cause for the aurora. Even large X-Class solar flares can be impulsive and nothing is launched while a smaller M-Class can launch a bigger CME at our planet causing aurora and significant geomagnetic activity. Sometimes a CMEs doesn't even come from a solar flare at all and is caused by a filament eruption in the chromosphere of the sun. Another factor for the launch of a CME is the duration of a solar flare and if there was a good magnetic reconnection.
The flares itself are essentially bright flashes of electromagnetic radiation in different wavelenghts of light, from radio, visible, UV, EUV and X-ray etc. and they release lots of energy in the form of light. Sometimes that energy also releases said CMEs.
Have a nice day and i left you a sub! :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detail comment. It is always good to learn things that I may have missed.