Sentences with phrase «when magnetic field lines»

CMEs occur when magnetic field lines at the visible surface of the Sun become tangled and break, releasing large quantities of electrically charged particles into space.

When magnetic field lines reconnect, they release energy; some researchers suspect that fine - scale magnetic reconnections above the sun's surface provide the energy to heat the corona.

When magnetic field lines interact, they can release high - energy ions and electrons, which produce X-rays and gamma rays.

Not exact matches

(When rocks form, their magnetic minerals line up with Earth's field, and that orientation is preserved when the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic paWhen rocks form, their magnetic minerals line up with Earth's field, and that orientation is preserved when the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic pawhen the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic past.)

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

But when the sun ejects major blasts of particles in flares and solar storms, these belts overflow and send electrons streaming toward Earth along the looping lines of the magnetic field, which intersect the planet near the north and south poles.

In 2015, NASA launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft to study the mysterious interactions between Earth and the solar wind when our planet's magnetic field lines occasionally break and reconnect, which also affects auroral activity.

They occur when charged space particles, typically from the sun, stream along a planet's magnetic field lines and interact with atmospheric atoms, producing not only optical light but also radio emissions.

When the gas plunges into the black hole, it follows the magnetic field lines.

The researchers obtained measurements in Antarctica in 2013 when the balloons and both the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Van Allen Probe satellites were near the same magnetic field line.

Chintzoglou and his colleagues developed a model that identified locations on the Sun where the magnetic field was especially compressed, since rapid releases of energy — such as those they observed when the filament collapsed — are more likely to occur where magnetic field lines are strongly distorted.

When boiling carries them up to the surface and farther into the sun's lower atmosphere, magnetic field lines rapidly snap back into place to resolve the tension, expelling plasma and energy.

The accretion disk is made of chargedparticles, and when the particles move, they generate a magnetic field.From then on, the field lines and the gas tend to stick together andmove together.

But Paty found that when this wind blows towards Uranus at the right angle, the planet's magnetic field lines up with the solar wind's and lets particles through.

When a current runs through the magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a magnetic «balloon» filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.

When they reach the earth, some 40 hours after leaving the sun, they follow the lines of magnetic force generated by the earth's core and flow through the magnetosphere, a teardrop - shaped area of highly charged electrical and magnetic fields.

They discovered that the lobe, an area of the magnetosphere which is usually filled with cold, unenergetic, plasma, does in some cases fill up with hot plasma when magnetic reconnection occurs on the night side of the Earth, thus closing the field lines and trapping the plasma within.

The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and twisting above it (Apr.24 - 26, 2018) when viewed in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.