Sun spots are gone

Researchers were puzzled by the strange silence in the Sun. Recently on the sun almost don't notice the sun spots, though a few weeks ago there were enough because currently the middle of the solar maximum.

The picture is made on 18 July by the device's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the tiny brown area to the right of center of the Sun, where, apparently, is developing a sun spot. And before there was nothing - i.e. the whole day passed without spots. According to the version scientist Tony Phillips, studying the physics of the Sun, the observed phenomenon surprisingly, not very. The view was also expressed that the current solar maximum is probably the weakest in the past 100 years.

It is curious that 3 years ago - on August 14, 2011 - in the Sun among other things was not stains. Also in that year solar activity was relatively high. Scientists describe this as a temporary respite". What will be the current period, will show time.

All this, taking into account opinion of Phillips, only highlights how little is known of Heliophysical about what was happening on the Sun. "The main conclusion which can be drawn from this event is that we just can't predict the behavior of the Sun", - the scientist believes. Sun spots are interested observers from the position that are regions where the origin of the solar activity, such as solar flares and emissions coronary mass, reports AstroБ•?News.ru.

Sunspots - dark areas on the Sun, the temperature is lowered in comparison with other parts of the stellar photosphere. They are the regions where the origin of the solar activity, such as solar flares and emissions coronary mass. The number of sunspots is considered one of the main characteristics of solar magnetic activity.

The basis for their education are highly concentrated magnetic field, temperature, which is slightly lower than the surrounding areas of the Sun,in consequence, to us they seem dark. The data of the active magnetic fields can twist and bend, in the result of creating a large amount of energy. Solar flares and emissions coronary mass happen when this energy is released in an explosive way.

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