our sun goes slightly mustang,
giving out higher levels of charged particles that could potentially
take out Earth's power grids, more sunspots and solar storms appear on the
surface, also the sun gets brighter, it is a phenomena that scientist have
known about for years, and have been trying for decades to model solar magnetic
activity in computer simulations, but it hasn't been easy, large-scale,
low-resolution models seemed to match the sun's behaviour pretty well, but
higher-resolution, small-scale models couldn't account for what was happening
at the large scale, now, with the help of a couple of supercomputers,
scientists have created a model that works at both the small and large scales,
and it might eventually help to predict the timing and intensity of solar
activity, the research was published today in Science, that’s the technical
bit, now for the fun side,
the computer generated graphics are totally mesmerising, in the future, the team hopes it refined versions of the
model will help explain how the solar cycle works and how it will evolve in the
future, science over, for myself I am going to watch the graphics again!
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