This year, the sun regularly ejects enough plasma. The head of the KubSU Astrophysical Optical Observatory noted that solar flares are a normal phenomenon.
– We are still observing the Sun in its maximum phase. Has this happened before? In 1989-1990, solar auroras occurred at our latitude. There were periods when solar flares and explosions were even more powerful. Solar activity has several cycles: an eleven-year cycle and a twenty-two-year cycle. There is also overlap: 50 and 100 years. And we are currently in a period of maximum solar activity.
Such periods can be longer – on average 11 years – or sharp, when the Sun ejects plasma for a month, and then the activity graphs decline.
The astrophysicist also explained that previously, only scientists received data on solar activity. Now this information has become public.
– There are both pros and cons to this. On one hand, we have access to good, interesting data; on the other hand, this data must be deciphered. Even when we look through a telescope at the Moon or other objects, we only talk about what we see with our own eyes, but explaining what it is – that’s not so simple.
It was noted that one thing can be said with confidence: the Sun is in its stable maximum, which generates periodic flares.
