Surabaya –
The phenomenon of the sun being wrapped around a giant ‘snake’ caught by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter. Not a literal ‘snake’, this phenomenon comes from intense energy processes in the atmosphere of the sun.
Some time earlier, the United States Space Agency (NASA) predicted that the internet would end in 2025 due to a solar storm. Does the giant ‘snake’ wrapped around the sun mean the Internet apocalypse is coming early?
As is known, the impact of solar storms, as predicted by NASA, will potentially paralyze telecommunication services, especially the internet, which is now part of human activity.
Reported from detikEdu collect CNBC IndonesiaSunday (15/7/2023), the giant ‘snake’ wrapped around the sun is a gas resulting from an intense energy process due to being fired at an atmospheric gas cylinder by the sun’s magnetic field.
The Solar Orbiter is an international collaborative space mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The mission launched on February 10, 2020. Solar Orbiter captured three hours of images that estimated the ‘snake’ was moving at 170 kilometers per second.
However, quoted from the European Space Agency (ESA), this phenomenon is not new and is not the same as a solar storm that will paralyze the internet as NASA meant. The ‘snake’ was seen on September 5, 2022 when the Solar Orbiter approached the Sun.
So how can the giant ‘snake’ move as if wrapped around the sun? Here’s the explanation.
Because of the Movement of the Giant ‘Snake’ Wrapped Around the Sun
All of the gas in the Sun’s atmosphere is called plasma. The surface of the Sun has temperatures reaching more than 1 million degrees Celsius and causes electrons to be released from atoms. Even so, in some parts of the Sun’s surface there are areas that are colder. Well, the ‘snake’ is formed in this part of the plasma.
David Long, the leader of the research who noticed this phenomenon, explained that cold plasma flows from one side to the other. This is what it looks like across the surface.
“You get the plasma flowing from side to side, but the magnetic field is completely random. So you get this change in direction because we’re looking down at a crooked structure,” explained the researchers from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL), UK.
The point of origin of the ‘snake’ and the exploding filament is known as a coronal mass ejection. This explosion was then detected by the Energetic Particle Detector (EDP) on the spacecraft. David describes this event as the most intense eruption of solar energy particles ever recorded.
Impact on the Earth
Because it is called the most intense eruption ever recorded, coronal mass ejections that hit Earth can cause geomagnetic storms. But this does not happen. The eruption only swept NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in line with expectations, because the impact of the impact is actually useful for measuring eruptions.
Not only that, gas samples that hit NASA’s Parker Solar Probe can be used as material for further research that allows a better understanding of solar activity and the formation of ‘space weather’ which may in the future interfere with satellites and other technologies on Earth.
The solar storm that caused the internet apocalypse. Read on the previous page.
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2023-07-15 08:39:45
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