The intensity of these AR3296 flares is increasing and SpaceWeather reports that an X-class flare is possible from AR3296 before the weekend. The rogue sunspot flared again during the morning of Tuesday, May 9, with this being its fourth M-class, or medium-sized, flare in around just 36 hours. This rule-breaking sunspot is set to travel around the limb of the sun and away from Earth by the weekend, ending its bombardment of our planet. Sunspots usually appear in pairs and show a magnetic field that is much stronger than the Suns average magnetic field. This makes reverse polarity sunspots more likely to explode and create CME outbursts and solar flares just like AR3296 is currently doing. Sunspots are much hotter than an average region of the photosphere, which results in more rapid motion of ionized gas that produces the magnetic field. But a few thousand kilometers above it a small distance when we consider the. While they tend to be the same size as normal polarity sunspots and last for the same amount of time, reverse polarity sunspots are twice as likely to be the site of complex magnetic fields in which positive and negative poles are mixed. Sunspots appear dark because they are hotter than the surrounding gas of the photosphere. The visible surface of the sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000 degrees Celsius (11,000 degrees Fahrenheit). Such reverse polarity sunspots are fairly uncommon studies have found that only around 3% of these cool patches break Hale's Law. This view of the Suns surface from May 5, 2023, shows the magnetic polarity of. The reverse polarity sunspot AR3296 can be found as a small blue spot above the center of the sun's disk in the image. Sunspot AR3296s magnetic field is reversed from that, with its leading edge negative and its trailing edge positive. A magnetogram (a representation of the variations in strength of the sun's magnetic field) produced by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on May 7.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |