We are at solar maximum, it is the period of several months within the 11-year cycle in which the sun experiences variations in the number of sunspots, also the solar wind, there are changes, there are more intense solar eruptions, emissions of x-rays, coronal mass ejections that are like gigantic plasma clouds that are mainly responsible for solar storms when they impact the Earth's magnetic field and other solar phenomena that directly affect us.
Since we are increasingly dependent on electronic technology and also on technology based on space satellites, so space weather is increasingly important because it has more and more effect on our communications, GPS, travel, space, since it can Airplane trips also affect the health of astronauts because when there is an intense solar storm, flights that pass near the poles must be diverted near those of the Polar Circle, it is not necessary to pass over the Pole itself, there are problems with those. flights.
Also on land at ground level, electrical networks can suffer failures and can also suffer problems, migratory animals since they are guided depending on the species by the position of the sun and stars and also by the Earth's magnetic field, have a kind of internal compass in the event of a solar storm it is as if that internal compass suffers interference and this can result in animals traveling in the wrong direction and flocks of birds ending up on the high seas and dying to go due to not reaching land to which they were directed or whales or dolphins end up stranded on the coast because they had been confused in the direction they had taken because of that change, that interference in their internal compass.
Solar storms affect human health, in principle we cannot say no, we are protected by the Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere, which is also a good shield against everything that comes from space. But there is increasing research suggesting that it could have effects, some also disturbing, such as that solar storms can cause up to 5,500 heart-related injuries.
It officially started in October 2024 and may last a couple of months more, because this is not something mathematical, it is not like predicting an eclipse, solar activity is more like trying to predict the flow of waves in an ocean or a storm at the moment what we have right now on January 22 is this giant sunspot and we have it pointing towards the earth, it is 3961.
It is larger than the Earth and is now facing us and according to experts it has a Beta Gamma Delta magnetic field, which means that it is energetically charged and can produce class X solar flares,
those of class which, as the NOA warns, may cause a temporary outage of data and web pages from January 22 to 23.
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