We were very surprised to discover a super flare, a flare which is thousands of millions of times more powerful than those we see in the Sun.

Assefa Chabo, a writer who symbolized the glow of the Ethiopian political movement of the 1970s and the crackdown that followed it, died on April 23 in exile.

In addition to all these, a weak glow (often deep red) observed around the two polar cusps, the field lines separating the ones that close through the Earth from those that are swept into the tail and close remotely.

The cusps of the magnetosphere, separating geomagnetic field lines that close through the Earth from those that close remotely allow a small amount of solar wind to directly reach the top of the atmosphere, producing an auroral glow.

Plasma applications Particle beams File Nasa Shuttle Test Using Electron Beam full.jpg_right_thumb_alt A violet beam from above produces a blue glow about a Space shuttle model_During a NASA wind tunnel test, a model of the Space Shuttle is targeted by a beam of electrons, simulating the effect of ionizing gases during re entry.