A sunspot appeared over the horizon

Published 21.03.2024 | By Йосиф

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A sunspot appeared over the horizon, threatening a second Y-class flare

spaceweather.com: The new sunspot AR3615 has a complex structure. It looks more like a rash than a sunspot, with more than a dozen dark nuclei scattered chaotically over a large area.

A magnetic map of the region shows why it is potentially dangerous:

While most sunspots are bipolar and have only two dominant magnetic poles (+ and -), AR3615’s multiple poles appear to be squashed together.

The close proximity of several pluses (+) and minuses (-) within the same sunspot group can lead to magnetic reconnection and strong solar flares.

Indeed, the AR3615 crackles with flashes. The strongest explosion to date is an M6.7 class explosion recorded by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 18 (1919 UT):

The number of points and complexity of AR3615 is growing, so it may soon also pose a threat to X-class solar flares.

Editorial Comment of The Big The One: Regarding the “strongest” M6.7 flare, the light adherents refute themselves, since the strongest was on March 16:

It occurred at a time when AR3615 was invisible from Earth. However, the explosion was so large that it was not only noticed, but the strength of the visible fragment was measured as M3.5. How much solar matter and energy was actually released remains a mystery, but spaceweather.com wrote about it this way:

The flare was partially obscured by the edge of the Sun. This means that the actual flare was stronger than it appeared – stronger even for the X-Class.

And now this spot is gradually turning towards us. The interweaving of magnetic fields hints that there may be a repeat of March 16th, and the increase in the sunspot area only reinforces this assumption.

The rotation period of the Sun at the equator is approximately 25 days. If AR3615 is now turned toward Earth at an angle of about 90 degrees, there is a quarter of a turn left to go straight ahead, which is exactly a week. A week from the moment of the photo of the spot will be March 25, the day of the Purim blood moon , so we are monitoring the developments.

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