Sentences with phrase «largest solar flare»

The Sun has ejected the largest solar flare in 12 years, with an energy rating of X9.3 (Credit: Space Weather Live)

The initial blast from this record - setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded.

Other stars occasionally produce such «superflares,» some up to 10,000 times the power of the largest solar flare ever detected.

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.

During large solar flares, the sun can also sling a cloud of energetic plasma from its body, an event called a coronal mass ejection (CME).

These findings also indicate that nanoflares are powerful, natural particle accelerators despite having energies about a billion times lower than large solar flares.

FOXSI's measurements — along with additional X-ray data from the JAXA and NASA Hinode solar observatory — allow the team to say with certainty that the hard X-rays came from a specific region on the Sun that did not have any detectable larger solar flares, leaving nanoflares as the only likely instigator.

For example, the hazard of increased radiation exposure from charged particles released during a large solar flare could require that flights be diverted away from a polar route.

In the past, large solar flares have caused blackouts and disrupted communications on Earth.

According to NASA solar scientist C. Alex Young, the region is unusual because it produced fairly large solar flares but not the huge coronal mass ejections that typically occur at the same time, sometimes damaging satellites.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare — the most powerful sun - storm category — blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface.

«The magnetic storm on 17 September 1770 was comparable with or slightly larger than the September 1859 magnetic storm that occurred under the influence of the Carrington solar flare.

In a quiet region, such hot temperatures clearly weren't due to a large explosive solar flare, and so are a smoking gun that something otherwise unobservable was heating up this area.

Arnold Benz, an astrophysicist at ETH Zurich, quickly realized that the instrument was particularly useful for studying the large explosions in the Sun's atmosphere known as solar flares.

Antimatter is rare in the known universe, flitting briefly in and out of existence in cosmic rays, solar flares and particle accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider, for example.

The largest solar explosions are classified as extraordinary, or X class, solar flares based on their X-ray emission.

A medium - sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the same, large active region of the sun on July 14, 2017

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.

Observations of solar flare onsets show a rapid increase of hard and soft X-rays, ultra-violet emission with large Doppler blue - shifts associated with plasma upflows, and Hα emission with red - shifts up to 1 — 4 Å [1, 2, 3].

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.

The coronal magnetic reconnection hypothesis can explain the observations via the notion that superflares and solar flares share the same origin and that the two activity distributions therefore are within similar range, but that superflares mainly take place on stars with activity levels larger than the Sun.

The January 7 flare occurred near the center of the visible solar disk close to a large group of sunspots.

According to the researchers, this isotope formed as a result of cosmic ray particles or protons hitting out atmosphere, emanating from a minor superflare, around 10 — 100 times larger than any solar flare in recorded history.

Due to a rare aligning of all the planets that only happens once every 640,000 years, unprecedented solar flares release neutrinos that heat the earth's core to such a temperature that enormous volcanoes erupt across the globe and earthquakes so large that they can't even be considered earthquakes.

Large solar storms, such as from flares and CMEs, can produce lethal radiation environments on the Moon or in interplanetary space.

Secondly, solar flares produce large amounts of X-ray flux, but this is concentrated to the duration of the flare which is usually from minutes to several hours.»

This is the largest flare of the relatively quiet solar cycle 24, -LSB-...]

This is the largest flare of the relatively quiet solar cycle 24, which some models predict will peak in another two years.