On the Sun there was eruption of plasma

On Sunday, August 1, the Sun had been a powerful coronal mass ejection plasma (charged particles), directed toward the Earth. It is expected that the plasma reaches the planet-fourth of August, according to a press release site NASA.

Release occurred, as recorded by the device launched in February SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory), was not the biggest of the possible, but nevertheless, the astronomers believe that the consequences would be clearly visible to Earth-fourth of August (the solar plasma is moving with a huge - about a million kilometers hour - the speed and ability to reach our planet in three days). Scientists expect that the environment at high latitudes can be observed auroras, which are the result of the interaction of charged particles with molecules of atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen. The particles of the solar plasma facing gases, "stack" of magnetic field lines surrounding the Earth.

In the opinion of American astronomers of the forthcoming release of the manifestation of the effects on the Earth do not agree to all their colleagues. For example, the Laboratory of X-ray astronomy, solar physics institute named after Lebedev (FIAN), Sergey Bogachev believes that the plasma does not move exactly in the direction of the Earth. The scientist notes that the SDO can not "see" the Sun in the future, so only use it to impossible to accurately determine the direction of ejection. At the same time, the coronagraph, which is equipped with the orbital observatory SOHO, showed that the plasma must not "meet" with the Earth. Words Bogacheva leads RIA Novosti.

According to specialists NASA, occurred an outbreak, regardless of whether it comes back to Earth or not, may signal a gradual "awakening" of the Sun. Last peak of activity occurred in 2001, and after the star went into a phase of minimum activity, which is abnormally long. .