The Sun's magnetic fields right now are very intense, they are always intense, but at this time even more so because we are at solar maximum. The sun's magnetic poles have not yet reversed, which is the peak moment of any solar cycle that lasts approximately 11 years and is also the peak moment of solar maximum.
This image is from October 20, it was taken by amateur astronomer David Wilson and he is an amateur astronomer, and many things have changed since 20, 30 years ago. There are now hundreds of thousands of amateur astronomers, some of them with very good equipment. David Wilson, for example, has it, this is not a space agency, however, he can look at the sun and he can see, for example, this bright globule that is about the size of the Earth. But it is much lighter, it is estimated that it may have approximately one million tons of mass, that would mean the mass of a typical small comet or 100 Eiffel towers like those in Paris.
This is a normal phenomenon, what happens is that at this time of year there are more of them and they are much more spectacular, in fact, but I want you to pay attention, the one who captured the image is an amateur astronomer, we no longer depend so much on NASA, it never had a monopoly, but we also no longer depend so much on space agencies to see what is happening in the cosmos.
Perhaps thanks to amateur astronomers we can have images of the perihelion of 3I/Atlas, of the moment when it approaches the Sun most closely, which will be on October 29, because NASA is still closed, the entire United States administration, not only NASA is closed, there are minimal services, but they do not publish things.
There are two NASA observatories that would take images, they are going to take images, but until they start, the closure issue is not resolved, the closure issue is not resolved, we will not be able to see them, we have to trust, for example, in amateur astronomers.
Solar observation is complicated, be careful, quite advanced equipment is needed, but there is also a good group, let's trust them, who can provide us with a lot of very interesting data.
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