NASA has shared an extraordinary photo of the Northern Lights for World Earth Day (Image: GETTY)
NASA has shared an extraordinary photo of the Northern Lights for World Earth Day but an astronomer noted its eerie warning. The Beauty and the Beast spectacle was captured in the sky in Iceland by astronomer Juan Carlos Casado in 2016. He warned the display could “impair civilisation” one day.
The expert explained the event can interfere with global power grids.
He wrote in the picture caption: “Admire the beauty but fear the beast.
“The beast is the wave of charged particles that creates the aurora but might, one day, impair civilisation.
“In 1859, following notable auroras seen all across the globe, a pulse of charged particles from a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with a solar flare impacted Earth's magnetosphere so forcefully that they created the Carrington Event.
The Beauty and the Beast spectacle was captured in the sky in
