According to Spaceweather – a website that tracks news about weather events in the universe – the sunspot, called AR 3038, grew to approximately 2.5 times the size of the Earth. Thus, the spot is now about 31,900 kilometers in diameter, and it all happened on the night of June 19th to 20th.
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What would sunspots be called?
Compared to our star's surface, sunspots appear to be slightly darker because they are regions of the Sun's surface that have temperatures below the local average.
These spots have a high concentration of magnetic field. This field is concentrated and retains matter like a plasma, which is an extremely hot, electrically charged and ionized gas.
Spot AR 3038 has an unstable magnetic field
The images that were taken by the agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory show how the region is changing. Experts reveal that AR 3038 has an unstable "beta-gamma" magnetic field, which powers M-class solar flares.
Thus, the second strongest type of solar flare is precisely the M type. The existing categories are A, B, C, M and X (from the weakest to the strongest), according to the internationally recognized classification.
Now is not the time for major concerns.
However, fortunately, the researchers' predictions did not come true. According to Alex Young, associate director of the Heliophysics Division at the Goddard Space Flight Center, the spot is producing small solar flares, but not complicated enough to cause calamities bigger.
Thus, according to Young, there is about a 30% chance that the solar mantle produces medium-sized sine waves and a 10% chance of producing stronger storms.
According to Solar Dynamics Observatory scientist W. Dean Pesnell, this sunspot is an active region of modest size that has not grown significantly out of the normal range and is still relatively small. He goes on to say that this is precisely the type of active region to be expected at this point in the solar cycle.
