Sentences with phrase «by solar flares»

An X-ray spectrometer onboard the spacecraft measured the X-ray radiation from the planet's surface, produced by solar flares on the sun, to determine the chemical composition of more than 5,800 lava deposits on Mercury's surface.

Until a few years ago, the commonly held scientific view was that two kinds of solar events affect us — short - duration events caused by solar flares and long - duration events from CMEs.

There, Sophie Turner's Jean Grey is hit by a solar flare that awakens the Phoenix and ignites a conflict that plays out through the rest of the movie.

I would say that the author should report back on the accuracy of this statement the next time we're hit dead center by a solar flare.

Not exact matches

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

I'm guessing the day (21st) will start with a huge solar flare, followed by various earthquakes, tsunami's & general natural disasterish happenings....

So what is the difference if a solar flare begins to torch the earth or we get shot by a stray bullet.

Geomagnetic storms caused by violent solar flares can overload transformers and cause electric grids to fail; so can electromagnetic pulses, triggered by nuclear detonations miles above the ground.

This large solar flare, produced by an active region of the sun (AR9077), triggered magnetic storms and knocked out satellites when it created a solar storm on July 14, 2000.

The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.

Solar flare observed by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager and associated coronal mass ejection observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft.

These particles are the by - products of solar flares, the most powerful explosions anywhere in the solar system.

The first record of a solar flare and a magnetic storm was noted by astronomer Richard Carrington in 1859.

Those speedy electrons also can be generated by scaled - down versions of flares called nanoflares, which are about a billion times less energetic than regular solar flares.

But solar flares — the brief, intense flashes of light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.

Solar flares are sometimes followed by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which spew charged and magnetized particles into space.

But in this case, there was no observable solar flare, meaning the hot material was most likely produced by a series of solar flares so small that they were undetectable from Earth: nanoflares.

Lawrence and his team looked at MESSENGER data from June 4 and 5, 2011, corresponding to solar flares that were accompanied by fast - moving, energetic charged particles.

This indicated that the neutrons were most likely produced by accelerated flare particles striking the lower solar atmosphere, releasing neutrons as a result of high - energy collisions.

Not long after this, in 1859, Richard Carrington observed a huge solar flare that was followed within a day by brilliant displays of the northern lights in regions as far south as Italy and Cuba.

Analyzing measurements of high - altitude airglow gathered by a satellite in 1992 and 1996 (years of maximum and minimum solar flare activity, respectively), the scientists found 11 cases where airglow, in theory, brightened enough to be seen by observers on the ground, they report in Geophysical Research Letters.

Drawing by Valderrama of the solar flare he observed on 10 September 1886 on a sunspot (with the penumbra shown with hashed lines and the umbra in black).

By simulating a solar flare blasting young Mars with high - energy protons, Avi Loeb at Harvard University and his colleagues found that these mighty bursts might create the building blocks of life.

«Furthermore, the white - light flare observed by Valderrama is, chronologically, the third one recorded in the history of solar physics,» adds Vaquero.

Although such flares would be fatal in today's solar system, astronomers think they actually sustain the survival of newborn planets elsewhere by keeping them from spiraling into their parent stars.

The first solar flare was recorded by British astronomer Richard C. Carrington on 1 September 1859, and the second was described on 13 November 1872 by the Italian Pietro Angelo Secchi.

By characterizing the transition to the flare, their work opens the way to forecasting the solar storms that impact Earth, and makes the cover story of Nature dated October 23.

The first PhD studentship, fully funded by the Royal Society for 4 - years, is available for a UK / EU student on the topic of «The high energy emission from small solar flares».

During flares, the solar irradiance at these energetic wavelengths can increase by one order of magnitude (Lilensten et al. 2014).

The Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) invites applications for a postdoctoral research position in Heliophysics to work on the project «A new perspective on particle acceleration on the Sun: Solar Flare radio observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array», funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Solar prominences (flares) as observed by NASA's STEREO mission.

NASA (Krist, et al, 1999) Until the discovery of superflares by stars like Kappa Ceti, enormous coronal mass ejections releasing energy from 100 to 10 million times greater than a typical Solar flare by stars of spectral classes F8 to G8 were thought to be limited to very young stars — like this magnetically - driven outburst by the million - year - old binary pair of pre-main-sequence stars, XZ Tauri AB.

Here we present a joint hydrodynamic and radiative model showing that during the first seconds of beam injection the effects caused by beam electrons can reproduce Hα line profiles with large red - shifts closely matching those observed in a C1.5 flare by the Swedish Solar Telescope.

NASA (Krist, et al, 1999) Until the discovery of superflares by stars like Groombridge 1830, enormous coronal mass ejections releasing energy from 100 to 10 million times greater than a typical Solar flare by stars of spectral classes F8 to G8 were thought to be limited to very young stars — like this magnetically - driven outburst by the million - year - old binary pair of pre-main-sequence stars, XZ Tauri AB.

Due to the huge amount of energy released in these superflares, it has been speculated if the underlying mechanism is the same as for solar flares, which are caused by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona.

Sunspots and solar flares are driven by magnetic fields in the Sun.

Solar flares are brief, rapid bursts of high - energy radiation emitted by the sun.

In fact, as another recent modeling study demonstrated, planets in tight orbits around red dwarf stars might be getting lashed by an insane number of high - energy solar flares, stripping their atmospheres faster than they can be replenished.

On April 25, 2008, EV Lacertae emitted the brightest flare by a main - sequence star observed in the Solar neighborhood up to that date (more).

The other is magnetic heating, in which magnetic energy is continuously built up by photospheric motion and released through magnetic reconnection in the form of large solar flares and myriad similar but smaller events.

Fresh research has revealed that devastating solar storms known as «superflares» are generated via the same process as common solar flares produced by our Sun.

Solar flares were first observed by in 1859 by Lord Richard C. Carrington.

Written by Toby Emmerich, Frequency details the time - travel shenanigans that ensue after a 36 - year - old cop (Jim Caviezel's John Sullivan) begins communicating with his long - dead father (Dennis Quaid's Frank) through a CB radio (with the help of mysterious solar flares).

Brave tells the story of Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), an irrepressible Scottish princess with a mane of red ringlets that approximates a solar flare.

Another group took the survivors into a helicopter, and Thomas awakens upon the group's arrival at a remote facility, which is under attack by people who have been infected by a neural disease brought about by a massive solar flare.

The new, curvier grill is surrounded by projector headlamps and accented with boldly flared wheel arches, a raked cabin, dual exhaust with chrome tips, solar glass, outside mirror turn signal indicators, and 16 - inch steel wheels.

After waging war for the freedom of Humanity and driving them back, Mankind and the first civilization was undone by a very powerful solar flare, which brought the technology of that time tumbling into the dust.

It features: — 3D real - time sandbox game built with Unity game engine — metallic shader, lighting, particle effects, lens flare, explosions, fx — space combat RPG with extensive skill tree — open and living universe where 600 + ships fly around autonomously — epic story with dialogue system that allows real choices — recruit 6 wingmen and 2 can fly with you at a time — even discover romance with another wing pilot — recruit 5 corporate pilots who can fly trade routes on your behalf — trade, fight, mine, pirate, scan for derelict ships and wormholes — many mission types: epic, freelance, dynamic, wingman acquisition, faction loyalty — deep combat mechanics, AI, and faction standings — 20 + ships, 180 + modules, 33 solar systems with a unique follow - through - warp mechanic — 15 + factions to vie favor or destroy — cinematic camera shows you the action when it happens — fly manually with or without Newtonian physics or use autopilots exclusively — 22 track theatrical - quality award - winning soundtrack by renown composer, Sean Beeson — cloud save lets you continue your game at home or on the go MEMORY: Dangerous uses a lot of memory during play, so if you have an older device, please close extraneous programs and reboot prior to playing.

Solar Flare: The recovery time needed to launch a Z Vanish after being hit by the attack has been shortened.

(From NASA) Following through by taking a look, a brief item on how solar flares are not going to destroy us, which educated my ignorance.