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On the night of October 2 to 3, our luminary pleased astronomers yet one unique manifestation of its activity: on its surface from the lines of the magnetic field a strange figure suddenly appeared in the form “hearts” whose center was directed towards our planet.
The “dark heart” of the Sun lasted several hours, and then gone. However, scientists not only recorded it, but also collected all data for further study.
Employees of the Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun The Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences specified that this circuit is “drawn” through the cold magnetic loops that make it look whiter dark against the background of the red-hot region of the Sun. Dark Size heart “amounted to about a million kilometers across.
By the way, the periodic sun gives out similar figures, for example, in the shape of arrows, birds, some mysterious continents. Going on this, scientists say, because of the complex interactions of surface and internal magnetic fields.
Unfortunately, all these “art” of the Sun so far seem random, that’s the current “sketch” of the heart so far about nothing tells researchers of similar phenomena. However, in the future they hope to discover the secret of Svetil’s creative laboratory and on on the basis of this, more accurately predict its activity, for example, solar flares.
However, to predict such outbreaks does not mean to secure Earth from the “surprises” of the Sun, since in the case of a global release energy in the direction of the Earth, we still will not be able to something to oppose this deviation or to evade it. Nonetheless, today’s attempts by scientists in this regard will probably help people in future more closely “make friends” with the Sun and not so catastrophically depend on his “vagaries” …
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