the danger to the Earth is growing — Science and IT
A solar maximum can cause major disruptions to technology on Earth.
This year, the Sun is showing extraordinary activity in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. It is part of an 11-year cycle of solar activity known as the Schwabe cycle. With each cycle, the Sun's magnetic poles reverse, peaking in the middle of the cycle when the star's activity is at its maximum.
This was reported by IFLScience.
The process that occurs on the Sun is related to its rotation: at the equator, the Sun rotates faster than at the poles, and this causes mixing of the magnetized plasma. As a result, there are sunspots, which appear when magnetic fields break through the photosphere into the chromosphere and corona of the Sun. During the solar maximum, these spots change their polarity, causing the rearrangement of magnetic…
