While the Sun generates its energy from continuous nuclear fusion in its nucleus, scientists have been perplexed on the nature of massive eruptions on their surface. Now, a multiple eruption could shed light on the mysterious phenomenon that has the power to trigger climatic conditions of space on Earth. NASA is calling it “A Rosetta Solar Stone”.
The multiple eruption was observed for the first time with the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory and the European Space Agency and the NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on March 12 and 13, 2016. The explosion contained in itself three different types of Eruption, providing scientists with a unique opportunity to study them in tandem with each other.
“This event is a missing link, where we can see all these aspects of different types of rashes in a small package of a small package,” said Emily Mason, author of the author about the new study. The study, which has been accepted at the American Astronomical Society meeting, will be published in the letters of the astrophysical magazine.
Understanding Solar Eruptions
Solar eruptions, which could lead to severe climate of space that affect land harming electrical equipment and frequencies, could also be disastrous for astronauts beyond the orbit of the planet. Scientists have been studying solar eruptions in an attempt to predict them to prepare better for climatic conditions of space. Solar rashes are three types, a coronal mass ejection (CME), a jet or partial eruption.
NASA said that both the expulsion of coronal masses and the jets were explosive eruptions that emitted energy and particles into space, but they look different. “While jets explode as narrow columns of solar material, CMES form huge bubbles that expand pushed and sculpted by the magnetic fields of the Sun,” said NASA. Meanwhile, partial eruptions do not have a lot of energy to leave the sun and most of the particles recall on the surface.