Solar recovery

2002/04/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astrofisika

The solar activities are cyclical. There is now enough evidence to think that some of these cycles are double-crest, that is, that at the very maximum of the cycle there are two peak moments.

The maximum of the current Sun can also be two peaks, which makes us at the second peak.

In the time known as the maximum of the Sun, the activity of the Sun increases considerably, which causes the billion tons of magnetized gas to leave the Sun and hit the planets. Even the solar magnetic field, the size of the solar system, becomes unstable. The first summit of the closest Sun maximum took place in the middle of 2000 and then we entered the calm.

Now, by the number of dark spots on the surface of the Sun, researchers claim that we have reached the second summit. To greater number of dark zones, greater solar activity. For these and other issues, scientists believe that this second summit will become greater than the first.