More Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are on the way, as huge sunspot cluster that hurled energy and gas towards Earth will rotate back towards us in around two weeks.

The Sun has continued since last Saturday, pumping out increased radiation – a huge solar flare on Tuesday disrupted high-frequency radio communications globally the Sun is approaching “ Solar Maximum” a point during an 11-year cycle when its activity is intense, when the Sun’s magnetic poles flip –  a process that creates sunspots that fire out material, generating space weather.  This solar cycle is the 25^th since humans started systematically observing sunspots in 1755. The Geomagnetic storm last weekend was a one-in-30 year event and the biggest since 2003, caused by five coronal mass ejections (CMEs)  eruptions of magnetic fields and solar storms –leaving the Sun in close succession and took 18 hours to reach Earth as the CMEs interacted with Earth’s magnetic field. This magnetosphere is what shields us from all that immensely powerful radiation – without it, there would be no life on Earth.

The different colours in Northern Lights  are

Red, excited atomic oxygen at high altitudes above 150 miles (241km)

Green, excited atomic oxygen at lower altitudes upto 150 miles (241km)

Purple, Ionised molecular nitrogen anbove 60 miles (96.6km)

Blue, Below 60 miles ( 96,6km)

The next superstorm will get closer and closer as we learn more about the Sun.