A solar flare that launched off the sun Wednesday afternoon could wreak havoc with communications systems and power systems on the Earth, as well as with satellites in orbit, in coming days.

Forecasters with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center said the flare already "caused impacts to high-frequency radio communications on Earth today," according to NOAA. "A coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with this event is likely, but further analysis is necessary to determine whether it will produce geomagnetic storming on Earth."

A coronal mass ejection contains billions of tons of energetic hydrogen and helium ions as well as protons and electrons ejected from the sun's surface.

If a CME occurred, Earth's magnetosphere will likely be disturbed and a geomagnetic storm could result in the next few days, NOAA reports.

NOAA space weather forecaster Bill Murtagh said that scientists will know more about when and where the impacts will be when more data comes in later Wednesday and early Thursday.

The flare is on the high end of the solar flare scale. One nice side effect of the solar storm is an expansion of the photogenic aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, across Canada and the northern U.S.

The Northern Lights appear when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun. They usually appear as shimmering green waves of light in the nighttime sky in polar latitudes. Much more rarely, they can be red and even blue.

Contributing: Beth Weise, USA TODAY; Associated Press

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Solarna baklja koja je pokrenula off sunce srijedu popodne moglo izazvati kaos s komunikacijskim sustavima i sustavima napajanja na Zemlji, kao i sa satelita u orbiti, u narednim danima.

Prognostičari s NOAA prostor prognostičkog centra rekao je baklja već "izazvao utjecaja na visoke frekvencije radio komunikacije na Zemlji danas", prema NOAA. "Koronih izbacivanje (CME) povezana s tom slučaju je vjerojatno, ali daljnje analize potrebno je utvrditi da li će se proizvoditi geomagnetni storming na Zemlji."

Koronih izbacivanje sadrži milijarde tona energetskog vodika i helija iona, kao i protona i elektrona izbačen iz sunčeve površine.

Ako CME dogodila, Zemljina magnetosfera će vjerojatno biti poremećen i geomagnetska oluja mogla dovesti u sljedećih nekoliko dana, NOAA izvještava.

NOAA svemirsko vrijeme prognostičar Bill Murtagh rekao je da će znanstvenici znaju više o tome kada i gdje su učinci će biti kada više podataka dolazi kasnije srijede i četvrtak ujutro.

Baklja je na visokoj kraju Sunčeva baklja skali. Jedna lijepa nuspojava solarne oluje je ekspanzija fotogeničan aurore borealis, ili Northern Lights, po Kanadi i SAD-u sjevernom

The Northern Lights pojaviti kad atoma u Zemljinoj visinskom atmosferu sudaraju s energetskim nabijenih čestica sa Sunca. Oni se obično pojavljuju kao svjetlucavi zeleni valovi svjetlosti u noćno nebo u polarnim geografskim širinama. Mnogo rjeđe, oni mogu biti crvene, pa čak i plave.

Suradnici: Beth Weise, USA Today; Associated Press

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