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A new large flash occurred in the sun
In the sun on Thursday evening, September 7, there was another major flash. The day before, experts recorded a flash of the X9.3 score, which has become the most powerful over the past 12 years. Data on a new outbreak is given on the website of the Laboratory of X -ray astronomy of the Sun of the Physical Institute named after P. N. Lebedeva RAS (Fian).
According to the published schedule of the outbreak activity of the Sun, the outbreak occurred from 17:20 to 17:55 Moscow time. It was recorded by the American companion of GOES-15.
Specialists evaluated the power of the new flash as x1.3 (the letter X denotes the most powerful possible solar outbreaks, the figure shows its intensity). In just September 7, 11 outbreaks of class C and above occurred, the message said.
The last series of flashes in the sun began on September 4. At first, five outbreaks of class m with a capacity of four to five points were recorded. On September 6, a flash of X2.2 occurred, then a powerful flash of X9.3 followed. The last outbreak of such a force in the sun was observed on September 7, 2005 .
The Laboratory of X -ray astronomy of the Sun Fian notes that the level of outbreak activity was 10.3. Such a value is located outside the conventional color scale, which has five values (from green to yellow, orange, red and maximum, purple, levels of activity of the Sun) and corresponds to the so -called black (higher) level of activity.
According to Russian scientists, the last powerful outbreak in the sun can lead to failure of space technology and communication systems. As reported, such cases have already been recorded in Europe and America. According to forecasts, the emission of the solar matter can also cause a strong magnetic storm.
After the outbreak that took place on September 6, the Tele2 cell operator said that she could affect the quality of communication. As the source close to the company reported to RBC , problems with the main channels arose in Nizhny Novgorod, Kemerovo, Izhevsk, Tomsk and Syktyvkar.
Due to the most powerful flash in the sun in the coming days, you should not get behind the wheel and fly on airplanes. This was previously stated by the leading researcher at the Pulkovo Observatory Georgy Goncharov. "If you have the opportunity today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow you can’t fly on an airplane, do not swim on a submarine, do not get behind the wheel," we must use this, "the scientist said the day before.
The consequences of the flash may lead to failures in the operation of spacecraft in orbit, specialists warn . At the same time, Roscosmos state corporation on Thursday said that so far no problems were recorded - the flash has not influenced the work of the ISS and the Russian satellite group.
The American satellite of GOES-15 was launched in March 2010. Five chambers were installed on his board to shoot the Earth’s surface in the visible and infrared range, devices for collecting data on temperature and moisture of the atmosphere, as well as detectors for fixing X -ray flashes in the sun, charged particles and devices for monitoring the state of the magnetosphere. This satellite is the main source of data on solar outbreaks.
Observations of the last flashes in the sun are made only by foreign space observatories, the Fian laboratory is noted . The only Russian solar project with the launch in the current Federal Space Program of the Russian Federation (observatory with the working name of the arch) was scheduled only for 2024, the report said.