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Essay / Sunspot Essay - 1526
Did you know that the core of the sun can reach around 15 million degrees Celsius? This bright star experiences many important events. These interesting events include sunspots, solar winds, coronal mass ejections and solar flares. Sunspots are cold, dark-colored regions of the photosphere linked to a changing magnetic field inside the sun. However, sunspots are only dark from our perspective. A sunspot removed from the luminous background of the Sun would shine brightly. The solar wind is a radiation of heat and a constant flow of charged particles. The wind blows at around 450 kilometers per second throughout the solar system. Additionally, the Northern Lights occur when highly charged particles from the solar atmosphere move into the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. Sometimes particles shoot out from the sun during a solar flare, which can disrupt satellite communications and cut power on Earth. The flares are as powerful as millions of 100 megaton hydrogen bombs exploding at the same time! Coronal mass ejections are huge braided bubbles of gas with magnetic field lines that are ejected from the Sun over the course of several hours. Coronal mass ejections are known to be formed by explosive reconfigurations of solar magnetic fields through the process of magnetic reconnection, but its exact formation mechanism is not yet understood. One factor related to sunspots is that climate changes depend on where they are found and how many there are. there is in the sun. According to current theory, sunspots occur in pairs of magnetic disturbances in concentrated plasma near the Sun's surface. The magnetic force is 2,500 times stronger than that of Earth. Due to the high magnetic field, the magnetic pressure increases while the surrounding atmospheric pressure decreases...... middle of paper ...... worldwide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms in the high atmosphere. M-Class flares are medium in size; they typically cause brief radio outages that affect the Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow a Class M flare. However, compared to Class X and M events, Class C flares are small and have few notable consequences here on Earth. Solar flares are different from "coronal mass ejections" (CMEs), which were once thought to be triggered by solar flares. Coronal mass ejections generate geomagnetic storms. Solar flares, on the other hand, directly affect the ionosphere and radio communications on Earth, and also release energetic particles into space. Therefore, to understand and predict "space weather" and the effect of solar activity on Earth, an understanding of both CMEs and flares is necessary.