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Nightmare Disaster Sci-Fi Finale 2009 Knowing Doesn’t Leave the Earth no chance: a monstrous flash on the Sun literally burns everything living.
The scary movie, released five years ago, recently again shown on television. It happened – most likely by chance that the demonstration coincided with the discovery made NASA experts. And it turned out to be associated with outbreaks, which, as it turned out, are really capable of destroying life on planets located near the star. If it is there, of course.
The spacecraft Swift (Swift Mission) recorded coronal ejection that occurred on a star located at 60 light years from Earth in the DG Canum Venaticorum (DG CVn) system. The expelled substance was heated to 200 million degrees Celsius. And the flash itself was 10 thousand times (!) – more powerful than the flash itself. the strongest flash ever seen on the sun.
And so not some giant blazed, but a red dwarf – a star whose size is significantly inferior to the sun. If this stars lived aliens, then they came to the end of the world. How in “Signs.”
– One of the largest x-ray bursts observed on The sun, which occurred in November 2003, had, according to its power, designation X45, says Stephen Drake (Stephen Drake), NASA astrophysicist (astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland). – The one that happened in DG CVn system, it would be necessary to assign the index X100000.
According to the scientist, the discovery was another alarming confirmation that the so-called mega-flashes happen. AND our Sun is no exception, not a guarantee of serene stability.
We have complete darkness. Least
By the way, experts from NASA and the American Academy of Sciences, starting since 2012, waiting for a solar flare of enormous power, which will induce a direct current of such a force in the electromagnetic field of the Earth, that he will literally burn electric networks. First of all – transformer substations. And the planet will plunge into darkness.
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Scientists predict and regularly report that it will happen again the so-called Carrington event that happened in the fall 1859 year. Then the young English astronomer Richard Carrington (Richard Carrington) noticed unusually large spots on the star, which blazed with a blinding flash. After 17 hours the night over many areas of the planet turned into a day – so it became light from green and raspberry flashes of the northern lights. The telegraph passed out. Sparks poured from the apparatus, stinging telegraph operators and setting fire to paper.
– 155 years ago, humanity was just lucky that it did not reach high technological level, – says James Green (James L. Green), one of NASA’s directors and a specialist in the magnetosphere. -Now, after such an outbreak to restore the destroyed world infrastructure will take at least 10 years. And trillions of dollars.
As it turned out recently, there were much more powerful suns outbreaks.
A group led by Professor Fusa Miyake studied slices of ancient cedars growing in Europe. And I found that in In the Middle Ages, they – cedars – underwent a powerful energy exposure. As a result, the content of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in wood increased 20 times. Annual rings the Japanese determined that the burst of radiation was in 775.
Japanese studies intrigue Finnish scientists University of Oulu. Group led Professor Ilya Usoskin confirmed the existence of the phenomenon, found its traces are not only in ancient European cedars, but also in oaks. AND in addition, she found in the English annals mentions of “luminous snakes in the sky. ”
According to Ilya Germanovich, people saw flashes of anomalous northern lights. And they could have been generated by a powerful X-ray super-flash in the sun. Calculations showed that she was 20 times more powerful than the Carrington event. And 100 times more powerful than the most powerful flash recorded in the XX-XXI centuries.
But, it turns out, and this is far from the limit. That is, the script, the film “The Sign” is quite real.
By the way, the mega-flash in the DG CVn system is also not quite out of order overwhelming event. Hiroyuki Maehara from Kyoto University (Japan) analyzed data collected in just 120 days of space telescope operation Kepler. And I found out that out of 83 thousand sun-like stars that hit in sight, 148 fired 365 super-flashes. And two of them were “killer” mega-class.
Mankind is not immune from the “doomsday outbreak”
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