+18 Sun Emanation Responsible For The Northern Lights Ideas. Web an article published in the journal nature communications this week suggests that the natural light show starts when disturbances on the sun pull on earth's magnetic field. Our sun generates a strong solar wind, which carries about one million tons of extremely hot plasma (electrons, protons, and other particles) away from the sun every second.
These particles can travel millions of miles, and. When the sun rotates on its axis, its magnetic fields become distorted and twisted. What a spectacle a big.
