As part of the meeting that the Royal Astronomical Society of the United Kingdom held this week in Wales, the math teacher Valentina Zharkova has introduced a new model that helps predict with great accuracy the irregularities within the period of eleven activity years from the Sun, reports ‘Science Daily’.
“We found that magnetic wave components appear in pairs, originating from two different layers in the solar interior. Both have a frequency of about 11 years, but this frequency is slightly different, and are offset in time. During the cycle, waves range between the northern and southern hemispheres of the sun. Combining two waves together and comparing them with the actual data for the current solar cycle, we found that our predictions show an accuracy of 97%, “said Zharkova.
According to their estimates, solar activity will be reduced by 60% during the 2030s and cause a new ice miniedad, similar to the one that began in 1645 . That 30-year period is known as the ‘Maunder Minimum’ in sunspots almost they disappeared from the surface of the star. During those 70 years between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the “bitter cold were recorded in the Sun about 50 spots, when the normal would have been observed between 40,000 and 50,000.
At that time, according to historical records, “froze the River Thames in London, and much of the planet was subjected to conditions that have not been re-experienced since.
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