If someone could bring this link to this page it would be great.
Click SOHO Space weather. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the thread,and click on the bottom left picture.
This shows the Sun,and the Earth's magnetic field,and how the Earth responds to a solar storms energy. The Earth's magnetic field stops the solar storms energy,and it deflects the solar energy to the Earth's poles. When the energy starts to go beyond Earth,and snaps back creating more Northern Lights,and Southern lights at the Earth's poles.
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