Something strange is happening on the Sun: spots have completely disappeared from it
The disk of the luminary remains absolutely clean. What does this mean?
The disk of the Sun is absolutely clean.
Images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) show that all the spots on our star have disappeared again. The only one that was on May 9, 2017 has disappeared. There were no spots on May 10, and there are no spots on May 11 either.
As experts note, in 2017 there were already 32 days when the solar disk remained absolutely clean. There were exactly the same number of “clean” days last year. But this is for the whole year. And now - in just 5 months. Things may be heading towards a noticeable decrease in solar activity. What threatens global cooling. And who knows, suddenly observed weather quirks - snow after spring warmth - are harbingers of an impending cataclysm.
Along with solar activity, the intensity of ultraviolet radiation will decrease. As a result, the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere will become more rarefied. And this will lead to space debris accumulating rather than burning.
The Sun in an image taken by SOHO on May 12, 2017. Still no stains.
And in 2014, spots disappeared from the Sun. Even then it looked suspicious, because the star was in the middle of the 11-year cycle of its activity - that is, at its maximum. It should have been strewn with spots, which indicate activity. After all, solar flares and coronal ejections are associated with them.
And here again something is wrong. Scientists are concerned. It is possible, they believe, that the spots may disappear for a long time - for decades.
Matthew Penn and William Livingston from the American National Solar Observatory (NSO) warned about this back in 2010 - almost at the beginning of the current 24th cycle of solar activity.
They were echoed by researchers led by Dr Richard Altrock, an astrophysicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory. They discovered oddities in the movement of plasma flows inside the Sun. And, as a consequence, anomalous changes in magnetic fields. Namely, it is on them - on these fields - that the formation of spots mainly depends. As a result, Altrock and his colleagues also predicted that solar activity will be reduced in the coming cycle.
This is what a “normal” Sun should look like - with spots. Images of Earth and Jupiter have been added to the solar disk for comparison.
If the spots stop appearing, the Sun will most likely plunge into an extremely long minimum of activity. Something similar has already happened in the history of mankind. For example, from 1310 to 1370, from 1645 to 1715. In those days, the number of sunspots decreased by a thousand times compared to “normal” years. And the Earth was covered by the so-called Little Ice Ages. According to chroniclers, the Thames and the Seine froze, snow fell even in the south of Italy.
Researchers have differing opinions about when to expect a new Little Ice Age. Some threaten that the Earth will begin to freeze in 2020, others - that earlier. Like, it’s already started.
Yes, you may have to freeze. But it will be less magnetic storms, from which many suffer. After all, storms are caused by solar flares generated by sunspots.
BY THE WAY
It's been worse, it's been really bad
There is evidence that our planet, at least once - in the Neoproterozoic era, about 700-800 million years ago - froze so that it turned into an ice ball. This is evidenced by sedimentary glacial rocks found almost at the equator. It turned out that ice at that time covered the current tropical areas. God forbid, this happens again... It is unlikely that civilization will survive such a severe cataclysm. And in those distant times there was no one to worry.
The disk of the luminary remains absolutely clean. What does this mean?
Images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) show that all the spots on our star have disappeared again. The only one that was on May 9, 2017 has disappeared. There were no spots on May 10, and there are no spots on May 11 either.
In the picture taken on May 12, there were no spots again. The third day in a row went without them.
As experts note, in 2017 there were already 32 days when the solar disk remained absolutely clean. There were exactly the same number of “clean” days last year. But this is for the whole year. And now - in just 5 months. Things may be heading towards a noticeable decrease in solar activity. What threatens global cooling. And who knows, suddenly observed weather quirks - snow after spring warmth - are harbingers of an impending cataclysm.
Along with solar activity, the intensity of ultraviolet radiation will decrease. As a result, the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere will become more rarefied. And this will lead to space debris accumulating rather than burning.
The Sun in an image taken by SOHO on May 12, 2017. Still no stains.
And in 2014, spots disappeared from the Sun. Even then it looked suspicious, because the star was in the middle of the 11-year cycle of its activity - that is, at its maximum. It should have been strewn with spots, which indicate activity. After all, solar flares and coronal ejections are associated with them.
And here again something is wrong. Scientists are concerned. It is possible, they believe, that the spots may disappear for a long time - for decades. Matthew Penn and William Livingston from the American National Solar Observatory (NSO) warned about this back in 2010 - almost at the beginning of the current 24th cycle of solar activity.
They were echoed by researchers led by Dr Richard Altrock, an astrophysicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory. They discovered oddities in the movement of plasma flows inside the Sun. And, as a consequence, anomalous changes in magnetic fields. Namely, it is on them - on these fields - that the formation of spots mainly depends. As a result, Altrock and his colleagues also predicted that solar activity will be reduced in the coming cycle.
This is what a “normal” Sun should look like - with spots. Images of Earth and Jupiter have been added to the solar disk for comparison.
If the spots stop appearing, the Sun will most likely plunge into an extremely long minimum of activity. Something similar has already happened in the history of mankind. For example, from 1310 to 1370, from 1645 to 1715. In those days, the number of sunspots decreased by a thousand times compared to “normal” years. And the Earth was covered by the so-called Little Ice Ages. According to chroniclers, the Thames and the Seine froze, snow fell even in the south of Italy.
Researchers have differing opinions about when to expect a new Little Ice Age. Some threaten that the Earth will begin to freeze in 2020, others - that earlier. Like, it’s already started.
Yes, you may have to freeze. But there will be fewer magnetic storms, from which many suffer. After all, storms are caused by solar flares generated by sunspots.
It's been worse, it's been really bad
There is evidence that our planet, at least once - in the Neoproterozoic era, about 700-800 million years ago - froze so that it turned into an ice ball. This is evidenced by sedimentary glacial rocks found almost at the equator. It turned out that ice at that time covered the current tropical areas. God forbid, this happens again... It is unlikely that civilization will survive such a severe cataclysm. And in those distant times there was no one to worry.
Images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) show that all the spots on our star have disappeared again. The only one that was on May 9, 2017 has disappeared. There were no spots on May 10, and there are no spots on May 11 either.
As experts note, in 2017 there were already 32 days when the solar disk remained absolutely clean. There were exactly the same number of “clean” days last year. But this is for the whole year. And now - in just 5 months. Things may be heading towards a noticeable decrease in solar activity. What threatens global cooling. And who knows, suddenly observed weather quirks - snow after spring warmth - are harbingers of an impending cataclysm.
Along with solar activity, the intensity of ultraviolet radiation will decrease. As a result, the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere will become more rarefied. And this will lead to space debris accumulating rather than burning.
The Sun in an image taken by SOHO on May 12, 2017. Still no stains.
The Sun in an image taken by SOHO on May 12, 2017. Still no stains.
And in 2014, spots disappeared from the Sun. Even then it looked suspicious, because the star was in the middle of the 11-year cycle of its activity - that is, at its maximum. It should have been strewn with spots, which indicate activity. After all, solar flares and coronal ejections are associated with them.
And here again something is wrong. Scientists are concerned. It is possible, they believe, that the spots may disappear for a long time - for decades.
Matthew Penn and William Livingston from the American National Solar Observatory (NSO) warned about this back in 2010 - almost at the beginning of the current 24th cycle of solar activity.
They were echoed by researchers led by Dr Richard Altrock, an astrophysicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory. They discovered oddities in the movement of plasma flows inside the Sun. And, as a consequence, anomalous changes in magnetic fields. Namely, it is on them - on these fields - that the formation of spots mainly depends. As a result, Altrock and his colleagues also predicted that solar activity will be reduced in the coming cycle.
This is what a “normal” Sun should look like - with spots. Images of Earth and Jupiter have been added to the solar disk for comparison. This is what a “normal” Sun should look like - with spots. Images of Earth and Jupiter have been added to the solar disk for comparison.
If the spots stop appearing, the Sun will most likely plunge into an extremely long minimum of activity. Something similar has already happened in the history of mankind. For example, from 1310 to 1370, from 1645 to 1715. In those days, the number of sunspots decreased by a thousand times compared to “normal” years. And the Earth was covered by the so-called Little Ice Ages. According to chroniclers, the Thames and the Seine froze, snow fell even in the south of Italy.
Researchers have differing opinions about when to expect a new Little Ice Age. Some threaten that the Earth will begin to freeze in 2020, others - that earlier. Like, it’s already started.
Yes, you may have to freeze. But there will be fewer magnetic storms, from which many suffer. After all, storms are caused by solar flares generated by sunspots.
BY THE WAY
It's been worse, it's been really bad
There is evidence that our planet, at least once - in the Neoproterozoic era, about 700-800 million years ago - froze so that it turned into an ice ball. This is evidenced by sedimentary glacial rocks found almost at the equator. It turned out that ice at that time covered the current tropical areas. God forbid, this happens again... It is unlikely that civilization will survive such a severe cataclysm. And in those distant times there was no one to worry. via: 
“Snowball Earth” - this is what our planet was like when the Sun warmed it very poorly.
Something strange is happening on the Sun: spots have completely disappeared from it
The disk of the luminary remains absolutely clean. What does this mean?
The disk of the Sun is absolutely clean.
Images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) show that all the spots on our star have disappeared again. The only one that was on May 9, 2017 has disappeared. There were no spots on May 10, and there are no spots on May 11 either.
As experts note, in 2017 there were already 32 days when the solar disk remained absolutely clean. There were exactly the same number of “clean” days last year. But this is for the whole year. And now - in just 5 months. Things may be heading towards a noticeable decrease in solar activity. What threatens global cooling. And who knows, suddenly observed weather quirks - snow after spring warmth - are harbingers of an impending cataclysm.
Along with solar activity, the intensity of ultraviolet radiation will decrease. As a result, the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere will become more rarefied. And this will lead to space debris accumulating rather than burning.
The Sun in an image taken by SOHO on May 12, 2017. Still no stains.
And in 2014, spots disappeared from the Sun. Even then it looked suspicious, because the star was in the middle of the 11-year cycle of its activity - that is, at its maximum. It should have been strewn with spots, which indicate activity. After all, solar flares and coronal ejections are associated with them.
And here again something is wrong. Scientists are concerned. It is possible, they believe, that the spots may disappear for a long time - for decades.
Matthew Penn and William Livingston from the American National Solar Observatory (NSO) warned about this back in 2010 - almost at the beginning of the current 24th cycle of solar activity.
They were echoed by researchers led by Dr Richard Altrock, an astrophysicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory. They discovered oddities in the movement of plasma flows inside the Sun. And, as a consequence, anomalous changes in magnetic fields. Namely, it is on them - on these fields - that the formation of spots mainly depends. As a result, Altrock and his colleagues also predicted that solar activity will be reduced in the coming cycle.
This is what a “normal” Sun should look like - with spots. Images of Earth and Jupiter have been added to the solar disk for comparison.
If the spots stop appearing, the Sun will most likely plunge into an extremely long minimum of activity. Something similar has already happened in the history of mankind. For example, from 1310 to 1370, from 1645 to 1715. In those days, the number of sunspots decreased by a thousand times compared to “normal” years. And the Earth was covered by the so-called Little Ice Ages. According to chroniclers, the Thames and the Seine froze, snow fell even in the south of Italy.
Researchers have differing opinions about when to expect a new Little Ice Age. Some threaten that the Earth will begin to freeze in 2020, others - that earlier. Like, it’s already started.
Yes, you may have to freeze. But there will be fewer magnetic storms, from which many suffer. After all, storms are caused by solar flares generated by sunspots.
BY THE WAY
It's been worse, it's been really bad
There is evidence that our planet, at least once - in the Neoproterozoic era, about 700-800 million years ago - froze so that it turned into an ice ball. This is evidenced by sedimentary glacial rocks found almost at the equator. It turned out that ice at that time covered the current tropical areas. God forbid, this happens again... It is unlikely that civilization will survive such a severe cataclysm. And in those distant times there was no one to worry.
