Predictive Science has released models of how the sun’s outer atmosphere — or corona — may look on April 8, and they’re spectacular.
The first simulations from Predictive Science Inc. of what the solar corona, or atmosphere, may look like during the April 8 eclipse. When the moon blocks the sun and day turns to night on April 8, the sky will take on an otherworldly appearance for those in the. Stars will emerge from their midday slumber, the horizon in all directions will be bathed in a peachy twilight, and — spectacularly — the solar corona will shine from behind the jet-black silhouette of the moon.
“Magnetic flux on the sun near solar maximum changes a lot,” Jon Linker, president of Predictive Science, said in an interview. “Previously we could do a month in advance and then another prediction a week in advance. But right now the sun is very dynamic, which makes it very challenging. We’re doing something more ambitious this year, in that it’s a time-evolving model.
There are even more reasons the corona on April 8 has the potential to be quite special. Two major sunspot clusters could contort the corona into even more spectacular shapes.. It could rotate from the sun’s far side back into view, which could produce prominences, or large streamers and loops of magnetism.
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