Sentences with phrase «called nanoflares»

«The explosions are called nanoflares because they have one - billionth the energy of a regular flare,» said Klimchuk.

Jim Klimchuk, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, explained that the new evidence supports a theory that the sun's corona is heated by tiny explosions called nanoflares.

The NASA - funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket.

In April, scientists announced the main reason: small bursts of magnetic energy called nanoflares, which temporarily heat pockets of gas to 20 million degrees.

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.

One suggests the corona is heated via small explosions called nanoflares lower in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The research evidence presented by the panel spotted this super hot solar material, called plasma, representative of a nanoflare.