"One of the most dangerous manifestations of space weather."
A giant prominence was ejected from the Sun — its size was about 1 million kilometers.
According to scientists, the prominence was ejected towards the northern pole of the Sun. Its size was about one million kilometers — three times greater than the distance from Earth to the Moon.
The laboratory also added that such phenomena can be dangerous, but direct impacts of such ejections on planets are extremely rare.
"Large solar prominences, due to the high density of plasma and strong magnetic fields, represent one of the most dangerous manifestations of space weather, but fortunately, direct impacts of such structures on a planet are extremely rare. <...> Such an event will have no effect on Earth or any other planet with this trajectory," the scientists stated.
Earlier, scientists reported that solar flare activity continues to decrease.
"Small groups of spots that appeared on the disk over the last week are gradually depleting their limited energy reserves, and at this rate, they will be completely exhausted in the next 2-3 days. The rate of flares, already low, has decreased even further over the day," the statement said.
It is emphasized that the geomagnetic index Kp "is weakly fluctuating in a quiet zone from 1 to 3."
"On the visible side of the star, there are a couple of weakly expressed coronal holes, which apparently will not allow geomagnetic activity to drop to zero, but nothing serious is expected," the laboratory clarified.
Leave a comment