<p>In April last year, Earth saw beautiful auroras spreading far across regions where the phenomenon never even happens. A coronal mass ejection on April 21 triggered a G-4 class geomagnetic storm on Earth on April 23, 2023. It even reached Ladakh in India. Auroras happening at such low altitudes are rare. Now NASA has revealed that something else phenomenal and strange also happened during the solar storm.&nbsp;</p>

<p>NASA Sun &amp; Space shared on X (earlier Twitter) that for a brief period during the solar storm, a two-way “highway” formed between the Sun and Earth. Explaining it further, NASA said that this highway meant that "the usual one-way flow from the Sun to Earth suddenly went both directions: For about two hours, Earth was also spewing particles back into the Sun!" NASA’s MMS spacecraft flew through this path and collected data.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">On April 24, 2023, auroras lit up the night sky as far south as Arizona.<br />
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This rare light show happened because a huge solar eruption had reached Earth.<br />
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Scientists now report something even stranger happened during that event. ⬇️<br />
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<p>The particles sent back to the Sun from Earth collided with the Sun’s atmosphere and created an aurora on the Sun, the NASA page says. How did this strange occurrence take place?&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">For a brief period during the storm, a two-way “highway” formed between the Sun and Earth.<br />
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In other words, the usual one-way flow from the Sun to Earth suddenly went both directions: For about two hours, Earth was also spewing particles back into the Sun! <a href="https://t.co/Q2b1o5C9b0">pic.twitter.com/Q2b1o5C9b0</a></p>
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<h2>How did the highway between Sun and Earth form?</h2>

<p>NASA explains that as the solar eruption paced towards our planet, Earth was completely engulfed by the particle cloud. During this time for a brief moment, a part of Earth’s magnetic “shield” dissipated. However, we were still very much protected by the radiation emitted by the Sun. This dissipated part is called Earth’s “bow shock.” Imagine a boat moving on water, its front part creating frothy waves. Something similar happened when our bow shock created a barrier against incoming solar particles. This bow led the particles to “splash” against it.</p>

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<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;Beyond auroras: Solar flares impact Earth's core?</strong></p>

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<p>With the bow shock not there, the magnetic field within the solar eruption fused with Earth’s magnetic field. Earth’s magnetism had been holding onto particles which suddenly found an escape, and moved directly on a path towards the Sun. This highway is scientifically known as “Alfvén wings" and is rare on Earth. However, they are quite common on some other celestial bodies in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s moons. Alfvén wings is the path particles from Galilean moons Io and Ganymede take to reach Jupiter, adding to Jupiter’s ultraviolet aurora, the NASA post says.</p>


In April last year, Earth saw beautiful auroras spreading far across regions where the phenomenon never even happens. A coronal mass ejection on April 21 triggered a G-4 class geomagnetic storm on Earth on April 23, 2023.

In April last year, Earth saw beautiful auroras spreading far across regions where the phenomenon never even happens. A coronal mass ejection on April 21 triggered a G-4 class geomagnetic storm on Earth on April 23, 2023. It even reached Ladakh in India. Auroras happening at such low altitudes are rare. Now NASA has revealed that something else phenomenal and strange also happened during the solar storm. NASA Sun & Space shared on X (earlier Twitter) that for a brief period during the solar storm, a two-way “highway” formed between the Sun and Earth. Explaining it further, NASA said that this highway meant that "the usual one-way flow from the Sun to Earth suddenly went both directions: For about two hours, Earth was also spewing particles back into the Sun!" NASA’s MMS spacecraft flew through this path and collected data. On April 24, 2023, auroras lit up the night sky as far south as Arizona. This rare light show happened because a huge solar eruption had reached Earth. Scientists now report something even stranger happened during that event. ⬇️ 📸 courtesy William Frohne pic.twitter.com/wK2h9pTtdx — NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) August 6, 2024 × Also Read: Earth had several tiny hidden moons billions of years ago, study suggests The particles sent back to the Sun from Earth collided with the Sun’s atmosphere and created an aurora on the Sun, the NASA page says. How did this strange occurrence take place? For a brief period during the storm, a two-way “highway” formed between the Sun and Earth. In other words, the usual one-way flow from the Sun to Earth suddenly went both directions: For about two hours, Earth was also spewing particles back into the Sun! pic.twitter.com/Q2b1o5C9b0 — NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) August 6, 2024 × How did the highway between Sun and Earth form? NASA explains that as the solar eruption paced towards our planet, Earth was completely engulfed by the particle cloud. During this time for a brief moment, a part of Earth’s magnetic “shield” dissipated. However, we were still very much protected by the radiation emitted by the Sun. This dissipated part is called Earth’s “bow shock.” Imagine a boat moving on water, its front part creating frothy waves. Something similar happened when our bow shock created a barrier against incoming solar particles. This bow led the particles to “splash” against it. WATCH: Beyond auroras: Solar flares impact Earth's core? × With the bow shock not there, the magnetic field within the solar eruption fused with Earth’s magnetic field. Earth’s magnetism had been holding onto particles which suddenly found an escape, and moved directly on a path towards the Sun. This highway is scientifically known as “Alfvén wings" and is rare on Earth. However, they are quite common on some other celestial bodies in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s moons. Alfvén wings is the path particles from Galilean moons Io and Ganymede take to reach Jupiter, adding to Jupiter’s ultraviolet aurora, the NASA post says.

Aurora on Sun? It happened in 2023 when Earth spewed back particles

<p>The Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon that emerged from a rainforest weeks ago has reportedly attacked loggers in the area. The tribe that has never been contacted had come out amid fears of encroachments. A local Indigenous coalition says that the tribe attacked the loggers with bows and arrows in the Peruvian Amazon region. The tribe here is the Mashco Piro number a little over 750 and reside in the forests of southeast Peru, according to the human rights group Survival International.</p>

<p>The violence has been reported by the coalition FENAMAD to highlight how the government hasn't done enough to protect the tribe's territory from the extraction of forest resources. FENAMAD is a federation of tribes that live around the Madre de Dios River. The body claims that a member of the Mashco Piro tribe fired an arrow on July 27, seriously injuring at least one logger.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Notably, the area of the rainforest where the attack happened has been acknowledged by the government to be Mashco Piro territory, according to Survival International. FENAMAD has reached out to the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, urging “urgent intervention” in the matter and ensure that the people of the Mashco Piro remain unharmed.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Also Read:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/largest-uncontacted-peruvian-amazon-tribe-is-out-of-the-jungle-here-is-why-741887">Violence feared as world's largest uncontacted Amazonian tribe comes out of the jungle</a></p>

<p>According to Survival International, Mashco Piro is the largest uncontacted tribe in the world. Despite being given territorial rights, logging operations are happening in the vicinity. When the tribe emerged from the rainforest in July, concerned groups raised alarm that this could lead to violence. They were seen on banks of the Las Piedras River in Monte Salvado located within the Madre de Dios province of Peru, bordering Bolivia and Brazil.&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">❗️ New &amp; extraordinary footage released today show dozens of uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, just a few miles from several logging companies.<br />
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Read the news: <a href="https://t.co/g9GrZlf3XB">https://t.co/g9GrZlf3XB</a> <a href="https://t.co/fZv5rryzVp">pic.twitter.com/fZv5rryzVp</a></p>
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<h2>Horrors committed on Mashco Piro people</h2>

<p>The fear among the tribe is not unfounded. In the late 19th century, colonial rubber barons tortured their people in the western Amazon. they hunted them down and beat them to death, including committing other atrocities such as chaining them, robbing them, rape and murder. Thousands of them were even enslaved. Today they are living in fear of deforestation and illegal logging.</p>

<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;Peru: Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active</strong></p>

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<p>Experts also fear that any kind of interaction between the tribe and the loggers can spread diseases among the tribal people and "wipe them out". Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of regional Indigenous organization FENAMAD, said in a press release, “This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect but actually sold off to logging companies."&nbsp;</p>

<p>The tribe had earlier emerged from the forest in 2011 and then again in 2013 to grab the attention of the world.</p>


The Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon that emerged from a rainforest weeks ago has reportedly attacked loggers in the area. The tribe that has never been contacted had come out amid fears of encroachments.

The Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon that emerged from a rainforest weeks ago has reportedly attacked loggers in the area. The tribe that has never been contacted had come out amid fears of encroachments. A local Indigenous coalition says that the tribe attacked the loggers with bows and arrows in the Peruvian Amazon region. The tribe here is the Mashco Piro number a little over 750 and reside in the forests of southeast Peru, according to the human rights group Survival International. The violence has been reported by the coalition FENAMAD to highlight how the government hasn't done enough to protect the tribe's territory from the extraction of forest resources. FENAMAD is a federation of tribes that live around the Madre de Dios River. The body claims that a member of the Mashco Piro tribe fired an arrow on July 27, seriously injuring at least one logger. Notably, the area of the rainforest where the attack happened has been acknowledged by the government to be Mashco Piro territory, according to Survival International. FENAMAD has reached out to the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, urging “urgent intervention” in the matter and ensure that the people of the Mashco Piro remain unharmed. Also Read: Violence feared as world's largest uncontacted Amazonian tribe comes out of the jungle According to Survival International, Mashco Piro is the largest uncontacted tribe in the world. Despite being given territorial rights, logging operations are happening in the vicinity. When the tribe emerged from the rainforest in July, concerned groups raised alarm that this could lead to violence. They were seen on banks of the Las Piedras River in Monte Salvado located within the Madre de Dios province of Peru, bordering Bolivia and Brazil. ❗️ New & extraordinary footage released today show dozens of uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, just a few miles from several logging companies. Read the news: https://t.co/g9GrZlf3XB pic.twitter.com/fZv5rryzVp — Survival International (@Survival) July 16, 2024 × Horrors committed on Mashco Piro people The fear among the tribe is not unfounded. In the late 19th century, colonial rubber barons tortured their people in the western Amazon. they hunted them down and beat them to death, including committing other atrocities such as chaining them, robbing them, rape and murder. Thousands of them were even enslaved. Today they are living in fear of deforestation and illegal logging. WATCH: Peru: Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active × Experts also fear that any kind of interaction between the tribe and the loggers can spread diseases among the tribal people and "wipe them out". Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of regional Indigenous organization FENAMAD, said in a press release, “This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect but actually sold off to logging companies." The tribe had earlier emerged from the forest in 2011 and then again in 2013 to grab the attention of the world.

Uncontacted tribe that came out of jungle attacks loggers with bows and arrows

<p>Our current Earth-Moon system was formed when a protoplanet named Theia smashed into our planet some 4.5 billion years ago. This is when Earth was just 100 million years old. The collision ejected loads of debris, some of which came back to Earth while the rest created our lunar satellite. Scientists have been studying this phenomenon and its consequences for years. They have even discovered possible remnants of Theia within the Earth’s mantle. The Moon, some scientists believe, was formed only in a matter of few hours.</p>

<p>Now a new study by scientists at the University of Nevada suggests that the aftermath of the collision likely led to the creation of not one but many moons. These results are available on the non-peer-reviewed preprint server arXiv. According to the study, these were a variety of polar moons—also known as circumbinary particles—that lingered around only for a short period of time. As per the scientists, the existence of these “moons” was possible only because of the close proximity of the Moon to Earth. Notably, at &nbsp;238,900 miles on average, the Moon in its first few hours of coming to life sat only five per cent as far from Earth as its present distance.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>“Circumbinary orbits that are polar or highly inclined to the Earth-Moon orbit are subject to two competing effects: nodal precession about the Earth-Moon eccentricity vector and Kozai-Lidov oscillations of eccentricity and inclination driven by the Sun,” the paper reads.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“While we find that there are no stable polar orbits around the Earth-Moon orbit with the current day semi-major axis, polar orbits were stable immediately after the formation of the Moon, at the time when there was a lot of debris around the system.”</p>

<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;Moon Drifting Away From Earth Approximately 3.8 Centimetres Per Year - Study</strong></p>

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<h2>Earth moved away from us</h2>

<p>Nodal precession means that a body’s orbital parameters undergo a slow change around the angular moment vector. Kozai-Lidov oscillations involve a binary system and the perturbations introduced by a distant third body. Taking these factors into consideration, they deduced that the particles orbiting in the polar region were the most stable. This is directly linked to the earliest distance of the Moon from Earth. The Moon later started moving away from us because of the tidal forces.</p>

<p>“If a significant mass of material ended up on polar or librating orbits, then the eccentricity of the Earth-Moon binary could have been increased as a result of its interaction.”</p>

<p>The latest theory can help scientists learn more about the exoplanets outside our solar system.&nbsp;</p>


Our current Earth-Moon system was formed when a protoplanet named Theia smashed into our planet some 4.5 billion years ago. This is when Earth was just 100 million years old.

Our current Earth-Moon system was formed when a protoplanet named Theia smashed into our planet some 4.5 billion years ago. This is when Earth was just 100 million years old. The collision ejected loads of debris, some of which came back to Earth while the rest created our lunar satellite. Scientists have been studying this phenomenon and its consequences for years. They have even discovered possible remnants of Theia within the Earth’s mantle. The Moon, some scientists believe, was formed only in a matter of few hours. Now a new study by scientists at the University of Nevada suggests that the aftermath of the collision likely led to the creation of not one but many moons. These results are available on the non-peer-reviewed preprint server arXiv. According to the study, these were a variety of polar moons—also known as circumbinary particles—that lingered around only for a short period of time. As per the scientists, the existence of these “moons” was possible only because of the close proximity of the Moon to Earth. Notably, at 238,900 miles on average, the Moon in its first few hours of coming to life sat only five per cent as far from Earth as its present distance. Also Read: NASA to set up lighthouse on Moon. Here's how it will help astronauts and robots “Circumbinary orbits that are polar or highly inclined to the Earth-Moon orbit are subject to two competing effects: nodal precession about the Earth-Moon eccentricity vector and Kozai-Lidov oscillations of eccentricity and inclination driven by the Sun,” the paper reads. “While we find that there are no stable polar orbits around the Earth-Moon orbit with the current day semi-major axis, polar orbits were stable immediately after the formation of the Moon, at the time when there was a lot of debris around the system.” WATCH: Moon Drifting Away From Earth Approximately 3.8 Centimetres Per Year - Study × Earth moved away from us Nodal precession means that a body’s orbital parameters undergo a slow change around the angular moment vector. Kozai-Lidov oscillations involve a binary system and the perturbations introduced by a distant third body. Taking these factors into consideration, they deduced that the particles orbiting in the polar region were the most stable. This is directly linked to the earliest distance of the Moon from Earth. The Moon later started moving away from us because of the tidal forces. “If a significant mass of material ended up on polar or librating orbits, then the eccentricity of the Earth-Moon binary could have been increased as a result of its interaction.” The latest theory can help scientists learn more about the exoplanets outside our solar system.

Earth had several tiny hidden moons billions of years ago, study suggests

Every little detail of a look matters! From the heels to the hairstyle and jewellery to nails, everything must be perfect if you want to pull off a memorable look.

Every little detail of a look matters! From the heels to the hairstyle and jewellery to nails, everything must be perfect if you want to pull off a memorable look. And, speaking from experience, if you don't have the right nails for the occasion, nothing can make the look work. Lucky for us, new nail arts go viral on social media almost every day and nail techs often use their creativity to come up with new nail art trends. A lot is trending on social media currently, especially when it comes to nails. My personal favourite has been the glazed doughnut nail trend. If you haven't been keeping up with what is currently popular amongst influencers and celebs, fret not, because we have listed everything for you. So, without further ado, let's head straight to it. Geode View this post on Instagram A post shared by @nailz_by_arabia If you wish to embrace the true beauty of nature's jewels and gems, try out geode-inspired nail art. Bright swirl View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jasmine Nails (@jasminenails_southampton) If you wish to rock something simple yet colourful, try out bright swirls in different colours. Two-toned French View this post on Instagram A post shared by Armonía’s Nails (@armonias_nails) While French manicures are boring, two-toned French manicures grab eyeballs. Glazed doughnut View this post on Instagram A post shared by Syd • Custom Press-On Gel Nails (@nailsbysmf) Glazed doughnut nails are making a lot of noise on social media. They look super elegant and chic. Glass nails View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zelda (@zeldas.nail.artistry) Netizens have been transfixed on glass nails since they first went viral in January. Jade nails View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nails By Haiyen (@nails_by_haiyen) If you decide to get Jade-inspired pale-green nails, make sure that you get a few accessories and stones added to the nail art design.

Geode, bright swirl, two-toned French and other stunning nail art trends of 2022