25.11.2014 - 18:09 [ Space ]

Monster Sunspot May Unleash Powerful Solar Flares (Video)

„This time around, it‘s more likely to have some coronal mass ejections associated with it, even though the solar flares might be smaller,“ said Gilbert, chief of the Solar Physics Laboratory at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. „We have a good idea, based on the structure of that magnetic field and the sunspot, that it‘s very possible that it will create some midlevel flares.“