What mysterious forces have prevented the Sun storms?

Researchers have finally observed a phenomenon that science has speculated for many years but never had the opportunity to witness: The Sun failed in its own efforts to erupt energy.

The sun produces bright rays when the accumulation of magnetic energy is suddenly released from the Sun's surface. But as scientists say, there are invisible and mysterious forces that end the miraculous outbreak of the Sun.

To witness this failed eruption, scientists have made coordinated measurements from a series of NASA devices, including the space agency's Solar Observ Observatory (SDO). and VAULT2.0 rocket.

VAULT2.0 is a sound rocket - this is a rocket that has a shorter flight time than an Earth's orbit. It can fly about 20 minutes in the atmosphere to collect data, before returning to Earth.

In this experiment, VAULT2.0 focused on an area with a strong and complex magnetic intensity of the Sun. This is where the research team predicted it could create a solar storm.

The sun failed in an attempt to erupt energy.(Photo: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center).

But contrary to expectations, the Sun worked differently. When the team observed a thick strand of material starting to bounce from the Sun, they thought it would be pushed out by the Sun, but it collapsed. And this is the first time, this phenomenon is recorded.

Astronomer Angelos Vourlidas at Johns Hopkins University said: " We expect to see an eruption because this is the most active area on the Sun at that time.

With NASA's IRIS telescope we saw a fiber that protruded from the Sun, but failed to capture the scene where they erupted on a good SDO on a telescope watching the sun (coronagraphs) . That's why we know this process has failed. '

To discover the causes that prevent the other material fibers from erupting into space and explode, Vourlidas and colleagues began to experiment with many ways to explain why the Sun's magnetic fields could be compressed or deformed.

Solar charge particles have opposite magnetic directions when colliding with each other, often producing light rays or solar storms, due to the release of energy from the field. However, according to the research team, there are other possibilities that occur depending on the direction in which the magnetism is involved in the process.

The University of Harvard University's astrophysics researcher Antonia Savcheva said: "We calculate the magnetic field of the Sun by monitoring millions of magnetic fields and observing the connection and dispersion of those This magnetic field dispersion gives us a topological geometry " (geometry studies properties that are not affected by shape and size changes).

The model of the research team shows that: there is a kind of magnetic structure that acts as an invisible boundary to contain fiber. This boundary, called a hyperbolic tube , can be formed by the collision of two dipole regions on the surface of the Sun, and will look like two colliding containers.

The team said the structure could have detached the material fiber as a wood-cutting machine, breaking the snake-like shape of the Sun's material, and dispersing its heat and energy back into the bulb. Sun atmosphere.

Solar charge particles have opposite magnetic directions when colliding with each other, often producing light rays or solar storms.

Explained physicist Georgios Chintzoglou of the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto explains: "Hyperbolic pipes break down the magnetic field of the material fiber and connect them to the lines from other fields of "The sun is around. Since then, the magnetic energy of the rope is lost."

So far, this is only a hypothesis, but researchers think this is a very important hypothesis, which helps explain what could have happened in this unprecedented event.

We are all aware of the threat of solar storms on Earth. But this study shows that while the Sun's eruptions can make us return to dark times, similarly mysterious forces are also working to prevent it from happening.

Chintzoglou said: "Most of the research is to explain how topological geometry has prevented these eruptions. But this tells us that in addition to the eruption mechanism, we also need to see consider new structures that appear on the Sun and how they prevent energy eruptions'.

This event was observed in September 2014, but the latest conclusions were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal.