The colossal streams of super-hot plasma in the form of spirals were discovered in the sun. This discovery crowned the search for confirmation of her existence that lasted almost 50 years. 
Photos from open sources These giant solar plasma spirals – each at least 100,000 kilometers wide – may stimulate the formation of strongly magnetic regions in the sun, associated with solar flares and other solar eruptions substances. Due to the internal heating of the Sun, matter rises to surface where it cools to a temperature close to the temperature outer space, and again falls inward. This cycle known as convection, and the zones where it occurs are called convection cells. Rotation of the Sun around its own axis causes the largest convection cells that form spiral patterns. Convection already appears on the surface The sun in the form of two structures – granules with a width of about 1,000 km, and supergranules with a width of 30,000 km. Life cycle granules – about 10 minutes, and the substance in them flows at a speed approximately 10,800 km / h; supergranules “live” longer – 24 hours, however and the flow of matter in them is slower than 1,800 km / h. Scientists suggested that even larger ones could exist on the Sun convective cells living for decades and reaching 200,000 km, thus covering the entire convective zone of the star. The difficulty in finding these giant cells lies in their small speeds, which makes it difficult to determine their effect on the solar surface. Finally, with the help of the Laboratory of Solar Dynamics NASA, scientists have been able to discover this huge structure. Researchers monitored the movements of supergranules for days. it helped them determine the general picture of the flow formed by giant cells. Matter flows in them at a speed of about 30 km / h The width of these spirals is about 100,000 kilometers, and their the life cycle is approximately three months. As expected, the consequences of the rotation of the Sun have led the cells to move along clockwise in the north and against it in the south. In the first and in In the second case, the areas around are under high pressure. Now scientists plan to investigate how strong it is. giant cells affect the active areas of the surface of the Sun and how it affects space weather. Scientists Lisa Upton (Lisa Upton), David Hathaway (David Hathaway) and Owen Colegrove (Owen Colegrove) involved in this study described in detail their findings in the December 6 issue of Science Magazine.
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