Sentences with phrase «flares on record»
Currently, the Sun is supposed to be entering the quietest phase of its 11 - year cycle, but that hasn't stopped it from blasting forth some of the largest solar flares on record.
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The so - called Carrington Event of 1859 began with a bright solar flare and an ejection of magnetized, high - energy particles that produced the most intense magnetic storm ever recorded on Earth.
That day, satellites in orbit around the Earth recorded a flare on the sun, which produced a spike of X-ray emissions.
JUST before noon on 1 September 1859, an English solar astronomer named Richard Carrington witnessed the biggest solar flare ever recorded.
Using satellite observations of meteoric «flares» in the atmosphere («shooting stars») and acoustical data that record cosmic impacts on the surface of the earth, Peter Brown and his co-workers at the University of Western Ontario and Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated the rate of smaller impacts.
The new station recorded its first solar flare on Tuesday, and the network can now scan the Sun 24 hours a day — at least during the Northern Hemisphere's summer as there are still gaps in the coverage of the Southern Hemisphere.
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.
This new analysis implied that the star actually released a 1 - minute - long flare, a thousand times brighter than the star's usual shine — perhaps 10 times brighter than the most powerful solar flares from our own sun on record, said Weinberger.
Though they usually take weeks or months to reach maximum brightness (and longer to fade away), astronomers recently observed a star called KSN 2015K whose supernova flared up to max brightness over in just 2.2 days and dimmed to half of that in 6.8 days, placing it among the fastest, brightest supernovas on record.
[44] In August 2015 the largest recorded flares of the star occurred, with the star becoming 8.3 times brighter than normal on 13 August, in the B band (blue light region).