Translation: The Sun's strange behavior has recently been mentioned on many an occasion.
Awaiting the Solar cycle 24, scientists are monitoring the Sun with close scrutiny.
Astronomers discovered an immense somber stripe on the Sun's surface. The filament is expected to be approximately 800, 000 Km long!
Astrophysicists suppose that the darker areas of the Sun are zones where the temperature is lower. What we see here is not a normal Sunspot and it's spreading at an alarming speed.
According to researchers, the region grew to encompass nearly a million kilometers in only three days.
The filaments are cooler clouds made out of Solar material, anchored over, and to, the Solar surface by unstable magnetic forces.
The Photo and video covering the period between the 6 and 8th of August, show the filament as a line darker than the rest.
At the end of the video, a part of the filament seems to break, but its initial form also seems to remain intact.
NASA expects September 2012 to be rife with Solar storms of unprecedented power. We can expect Solar storms that could have unexpected and serious precedents Worldwide.
Commenting on the study of the dangers inherent to Solar meteorology, the Astrophysicist Daniel Baker, inferred that its effects could be comparable to a nuclear war, or the fall of a giant asteroid.
Yet, in terms of electric networks (grids) and satellites, it's not the eruptions that have experts worried, but the CME (coronal mass ejections.)
There's a risk that they could one day erase the totality of our electronic civilization.
Solar storms can impair and perturb communications and navigation equipment, cause damage to satellites and even cause power cuts by means of damages caused on electrical centrals and other components of the electric grid..
They can also augment the radiation surrounding the north and south poles: and this, in turn, would affect flight itineraries and necessitate their having to be changed.
According to a report publish by NERC (North American Electrical Reliability Corporation), responsible for the supervision of the North American Electrical grid, we could feel the repercussions during several years.
"History shows that storms of this magnitude have the potential to neutralize the Current grid and cause damages of unprecedented proportions. Long-lasting power cuts and electricity shortage can be expected to last for a given amount of years." As stated in the report.
Text pertaining to photo #1: This filament appeared on the 5th of August 2012
11 images were assembled inorder to recreate this enormous filament on the Sun.
Photo credits: Leonard E. Meyer, Amateur astronomer from Malta, who contributes to many photos.
