Can you imagine what the sun would look like when it was destroyed?Some people may think that the destruction of the sun is too far away for humanity, at least billions of years, but this does not mean that the sun will not have accidents, and recently, NASA captured a picture of a piece of the sun's North Pole falling off.
According to the report, on 2/13/23, NASA posted a message on social ** Twitter from NASA's solar dynamics observatory that recently captured a **, which shows a huge plasma rotating around the sun's north pole, looking like a tornado of flames.
The sun falls off in small pieces at the north pole.
According to the explanation of relevant experts, this plasma is actually a part of the detached from the north pole of the sun, due to the influence of the sun's huge gravitational pull, the detached part cannot fly away from the sun, so it begins to move around the north pole of the sun.
In fact, this is not the first time scientists have observed filaments detached from the sun, as early as 2015, scientists observed two long filaments of solar material erupting from the sun, drifting away in space, and constantly breaking and exploding.
Of course, in terms of size, the magnitude of this piece of solar North Pole fragmentation shed today is unmatched in the past. Although we can only see a relatively small piece from the picture, considering the size of the sun, the size of this plasma is actually much larger than that of the earth!
Comparison of the size of the celestial bodies in the solar system.
As for why this is the case, scientists have also roughly speculated.
We know that solar activity has its own fixed cycles, which have a huge correlation with the magnetic field of the Sun itself, and that every 11 years or so, similar protrusions will appear precisely at latitudes of 55 degrees around the polar crown of the Sun. Recently, the sun has just ushered in its 11-year cycle, which will reach its peak in 2024, when new material may be shed from the sun.
Solar activity. Due to the fire of "The Wandering Earth 2", some people are worried about the change of the sun, thinking that the sun may occur suddenly as depicted in science fiction movies**, so that humanity will be wiped out if it cannot react to it.
In fact, this idea is completely unfounded, as a stable star, the Sun is currently in its "young adulthood". According to observations from the European Space Agency's Gaia probe, the Sun has been around for about 47500 million years, 5 billion years before the destruction of the sun!
The sun is destroyed. Five billion years is enough time for humanity to respond to everything, and besides, who knows if human civilization will still exist in 5 billion years?
Moreover, unlike solid objects such as the Earth, stars are gaseous objects whose matter is not as tightly connected as the Earth. In addition, the star itself is constantly undergoing nuclear fusion, and a huge amount of energy is radiating outward almost every minute and every second, and in such an environment, a part of the outer gaseous material is ejected out of the star with the burst of star energy, forming the plasma seen in **, which is not uncommon.
The sun and the earth.
So, this is a normal thing for all stars, not just the sun!
Therefore, although this phenomenon is rare, it does not mean that the sun is going to be "****", so some unnecessary worries are completely unnecessary.