The Japanese Spacecraft HINODE appraise the strongest magnetic field ever recorded on the surface of the Sun . This magnetic field was the result of a gas leakage from the fundamental interaction between two macula .
As reported in theAstrophysical Journal , the two sunspots were really near to each other on February 4 , 2014 , and they start labour against one another . Usually the magnetic battleground is stiff in the darkest part of the spots , the umbra , but in this case it was in the brilliant area between the spot , the penumbra .
The umbra usually has erect charismatic fields of the purchase order of 3,000 gauss , between 10,000 and 5,000 times stronger than Earth ’s own magnetic field , which is between 0.3 and 0.6 Karl Gauss . What HINODE recorded had the incredible enduringness of 6,250 gauss . Over the course of instruction of five solar day , the spacecraft monitored the area and discovered that the reservoir was not inside the spots .
What the research worker realise was that there was a horizontal gas catamenia between the two slur , because the two spots had a different mutual opposition . So the field of operation lines from one were enter the other one , and the load particles that make up the surface of the Sun go to transmigrate from one spot to the other . The researcher equate the process to the subduction zone between collection plate plate tectonics in the Earth ’s crust . The moving plasm enhances the natural strength of the magnetism in the region labour it towards the criminal record - ruin value that was recorded .
" HINODE ’s continuous high - resolution data allowed us to analyze the macula in detail to investigate the distribution and clip evolution of the potent magnetic field and also the fence in surroundings , " writer Takenori Okamoto said in astatement .
" Finally , the longtime mystery of the shaping mechanism of a stronger field outside an umbra than in the umbra has been solved . ”
There have been a smattering more instances of observations of what appeared to be passing strong charismatic field on the Sun , around like specialty . This is most in spades the strongest field observed parallel to the airfoil . Their analysis intimate that the accelerator pedal in the magnetic area was moving at about 7 kilometers per 2nd ( 15,700 miles per hour ) .
