Sentences with phrase «coronal gases»

They usually occur in nebulas, and their hot coronal gases can expand to make a nebula itself a detectable X-ray source.

«In order for the corona to make the photospheric temperature rise, the coronal gas must cause the photospheric atoms to move faster.

Beyond the corona is the solar wind, which is actually an outward flow of coronal gas.

Not exact matches

Occasionally, however, the sun also belches a billion - ton plume of superheated plasma (ionized gas), known as a coronal mass ejection (CME).

Coronal rain is made of dense knots of relatively cold gas, at tens or hundreds of thousands of degrees C, which pours down towards the sun's visible surface from the outer atmosphere.

This auroral display was due to a giant cloud of gas from the sun — a coronal mass ejection or CME — that collided with Earth's magnetic fields on Aug. 19, 2014, at 1:57 a.m. EDT.

«The forerunner to the phenomenon is a violent eruption on the Sun's surface — also known as coronal mass ejections or CME, where bubbles of hot plasma and gas in the form of particles, electrons, and a magnetic field are hurled in the direction of the Earth,» says Per Høeg.

At the solar maximum, for example, an increased number of outbursts called coronal mass ejections hurl millions of tons of magnetic and electrically charged plasma gas against the Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic field that surrounds the planet.

The image is false color, looking almost directly down over coronal loops, immense magnetic arches of hot gas that are anchored in the Sun's visible surface and could span dozens of Earths laid end to end.

Images from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) and the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer (CDS) on SOHO show the hot gases of the ever - changing corona reacting to the evolving magnetic fields rooted in the solar surface.