American experts had announced a magnetic storm of great intensity which could have had consequences at our latitudes. Unfortunately for the curious, the magnetic storm was not powerful enough to observe the Northern Lights on French territory, but this phenomenon will be repeated in the future.
To fully understand the phenomenon that disrupts the Earth's magnetic field, it is necessary to look at its genesis, nearly 150 million kilometers away. At the center of our solar system, the Sun emits a continuous stream of charged particles called solar wind. In such cases, “ a significant amount of plasma…