Aurora, which could be seen on Sunday evening in several places in the country, is related to the intense solar activity of the last two or three days, said the coordinator of the astronomical observatory “Admiral Vasile Urceanu” in Bucharest, museographer Adrian. Shonka, reports Agerpres.

He noted that the phenomenon can be observed in the north in the form of red lights. They were seen from across Europe as well as North America, and were caused by intense solar activity in recent days and a coronal mass ejection aimed at Earth.

“There were two big eruptions on the Sun, two and three days ago. They arrived on Earth yesterday, on the same day, but not at the same time, and contributed to the distortion of the Earth’s magnetic field, which allowed additional matter to enter the atmosphere, and not in the usual places, but here at latitude. (…) The aurora borealis can be seen every day if you are in the right place, i.e. near the Earth’s magnetic poles, because that is where the substance thrown out by the Sun into space, enters the atmosphere. But sometimes, when we have strong eruptions, this material from the Sun can also penetrate at lower latitudes. And because of this, they were visible from us now, because two or three days ago there were strong eruptions on the Sun. It’s something special that they see each other here,” Sonka said.

He noted that although the moments when solar eruptions occurred are known, it is impossible to predict when more intense auroras will be observed. This phenomenon also took place in April. In addition, a more intense aurora could be observed in November 2015.

“Those who watch the sun know when there’s an eruption on the sun, they know how fast the eruption is in space, they know when it reaches the earth, and they say, ‘You can see that tonight we might see a more intense Aurora”. .’ We have these forecasts, but it’s hard to tell people every night, “Look, the aurora borealis; it could be…’ as it is more difficult to calculate their effect on the atmosphere than to know when they arrive. We know when they will reach Earth, but it is difficult for us to say what will be visible from the ground. The last time the alarm was in April this year. I don’t know if people saw it, but from us the aurora was not so intensely visible. The last year it was seen almost the same, but not quite, was around November 2015. This was also in 2003. We rarely see them,” added the museum curator.

He ruled out a connection between the aurora borealis and the University of Alaska Fairbanks HAARP program, which conducted research Nov. 4-7.

“There is no connection. The northern and southern lights have been explained for hundreds of years. What we see on the Sun corresponds to what is happening on Earth. And whoever says that it will be something else, does not know, does not know and has nothing to do with it. You can’t make the whole globe see the lights in the sky with an experiment done in a certain place. It is technically impossible,” said Adrian Shonka.