Sunspot AR2585 is large but (so far) quiet. Solar activity remains low. Credit: SDO/HMI
A huge sunspot, bigger than the Earth is turning
to face us.
Spaceweather.com are reporting solar
activity is low, however, it might not remain so.
Big sunspot AR2585 has developed an
unstable 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for moderately strong
solar flares.
NOAA forecasters estimate a 20% chance of
M-flares on Sept. 3rd.
Our Sun has been remarkably quiet recently
as it enters its "solar minimum," period and you have to go back to
July the 23rd when it released its strongest solar flare since September 2015:
An M-class 7.6
But you have to go back even further since
the last time it released an "X-Type flare," which are very strong
and can be considerably dangerous to the Earth and surrounding satellites.
Earlier this week a wide gap in the sun's atmosphere
opened up causing a monster of a coronal hole, and it is spewing a stream of
solar wind into space.
Solar wind flowing from the indicated coronal hole is reaching Earth, producing active conditions in the geomagnetic field. Credit: NASA/SDO.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is
monitoring the "coronal hole" as it now begins turns away from Earth:
Coronal holes are places in the sun's atmosphere where the magnetic field opens
up and allows solar wind to escape.
Volcano and quake activity have been high
during as coronal hole solar wind pounded the Earth leading many experts to
claim the two events are connected.
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