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The sun is now the quitiest his condition - a minimum of activity - over the last 11 years of activity cycle. In fact, this year it was unusually quiet - more than 200 days of sun spots have been observed. Sun wind intensity also reached its lowest level in the past 50 years. Scientists still are not sure what you mean by this unusual calm, but they constantly monitor the nearest star to us through the whole army of telescopes and satellites. Here are some impressive solar images, make it more active times.

The sun is now the quitiest his condition - a minimum of activity - over the last 11 years of activity cycle. In fact, this year it was unusually quiet - more than 200 days of sun spots have been observed. Sun wind intensity also reached its lowest level in the past 50 years. Scientists still are not sure what you mean by this unusual calm, but they constantly monitor the nearest star to us through the whole army of telescopes and satellites. Here are some impressive solar images, make it more active times.

The first picture shows the hot and thin corona seen enormous prominence and huge clouds of relatively cool plasma. Sometimes the prominence escapes, escaped of solar atmosphere. Under the emission spectrum lines can be addressed, the upper chromosphere temperature of about 60000K. Almost all of these photos reflect the elements of the magnetic field structure. Hot zone appears almost white, while darker red areas indicate lower temperatures.

A second picture - a more detailed view of the magnetic structures in the surface of the Sun. Observed H-alpha wave band in 2003 April 22.