auroras

Would it cause the ground to interact with its star's magnetic envelope, like our atmosphere within the Auroras does?

Tons of energetic particles can flow through the openings, heating Earth's upper atmosphere, sparking geomagnetic storms, and igniting bright polar auroras.

These excited atoms start to glow, creating brilliant displays of light called auroras.

The auroras are not static like you are making it out to be.

I'm supposed to be able to see the auroras, but there is nothing yet to see.

In Rhode Island it seems like auroras practically guarantee overcast skies.

Capturing auroras in a photo creates a visualisation of their movement in the sky, and not an accurate representation of what the phenomenon looks like.

Yeah, there were auroras even as far south as Munich.

I grew up thinking auroras were these neat things reserved for Scandinavians and Alaskans - never thought I'd see one in the lower 48.

And if the auroras weren't worth writing home about, surely the mass extinction would be, as it's likely that the flare would destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer.

You might be able to see auroras, though.

I love the ones at night where you can see the city lights, the stars in the background, the Kármán line, auroras, and lightning.

It's much easier to get someone to understand "the temperature at 500km where the auroras are is very hot" than "blah blah heat capacity".

This is not "solar PV" territory, but rather the energy that the sun dumps into the Earth that is channeled through the field and produces effects like auroras, particle cascades.

Though it is not beyond the imagination that our sun could have belched out such a "super flare," someone on Earth would surely have noticed and made a record of the resulting auroras, which would be unlike anything ever seen before.