Sentences with phrase «millions of degrees»

During flares, solar plasma is heated to tens of millions of degrees in a matter of seconds or minutes.

Before it passes into the black hole and is lost from view forever, it can reach millions of degrees.

The extremely high temperatures — hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius — cause fusion to occur between hydrogen atoms in the plasma, releasing tons of energy.

They depend on maintaining matter deep in the interior of the sun at very high temperatures — many millions of degrees.

The real drama happens in places where matter reaches temperatures of millions of degrees and shines mostly in X-rays our eyes can not detect.

The Greenhouse Effect is an impossible world with its Sun a cold Star of 6000 °C, around the temp of Earth's innards, but they have a good reason for this science fraud — to eliminate the direct radiant heat from our real millions of degrees hot real Star our Sun, so they can then pretend all real world measurements downwelling are from «the atmosphere backradiating by greenhouse gases», and not from the Sun.

This form of energy is created from nuclear fusion reactions that take place at millions of degrees Celsius, but Mr. Fusion appears to work at room temperature.

Or maybe it really has risen to millions of degrees as Mr Gore said, but the magical CO2 is keeping the heat trapped in the core, much to our relief.

The insight should help explain why temperatures in the corona soar to millions of degrees Kelvin, while temperatures in the chromosphere — the layer just below — hover around tens of thousands of degrees.

Detailed comparison of new observations and supercomputer simulations has only now allowed researchers to understand how this can happen: the gas is first heated to temperatures of tens of millions of degrees by the energy released by the supermassive black hole powering the quasar.

This summer's total solar eclipse revealed rare views of the sun's corona, its outermost layers of plasma millions of degrees in temperature.

«The fact that the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere is at millions of degrees while the temperature of the underlying photosphere is only 6,000 kelvins (degrees C. above absolute zero) is quite nonintuitive.

Making the reaction work requires heating the atoms to tens or hundreds or millions of degrees Fahrenheit.

«A gas at millions of degrees also radiates energy; much of it is emitted in the form of very high - energy x-ray photons.

Such high - profile black holes are believed to be actively gobbling up huge loads of interstellar gas, which is heated to millions of degrees just before plunging over the edge.

The corona generally ranges from 900,000 F (500,000 C) to 10.8 million F (6 million C) and can even reach tens of millions of degrees when a solar flare occurs.

Stars are enormous celestial bodies hot enough to register millions of degrees.

Many recent results from COS suggest that much of this «missing» gas in the local universe did not disappear, but instead was superheated to millions of degrees after falling into dense regions of the cosmic web.

Deep inside the sun's atmosphere, temperatures reach millions of degrees — so hot that even the best - shielded spacecraft can't go there (even at night).

But a feeding black hole is surrounded by a whirling, white - hot disk of glowing debris — material heated to millions of degrees as it spirals down to oblivion.

Also observed is a diffuse x-ray glow which is apparently radiated by gas that has been heated to temperatures of millions of degrees Celsius.

As the material from the accretion disk falls into the area around the black hole (the event horizon), it heats to millions of degrees Kelvin and is accelerated outward in the jets.

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

At the ITER project in Cadarache, France, scientists are trying to generate power from nuclear fusion, which requires heating plasma to many millions of degrees.

These experiments heat electrically charged plasma to tens of millions of degrees Celsius and confine it with magnetic fields to make the atomic nuclei — or ions — in the plasma merge and release their energy.

The breakthrough, he adds, has been an evolutionary one in the development of the controls needed to manipulate the magnetic fields to the temperatures (millions of degrees) and pressures in which fusion happens.

Fusion involves heating nuclei of atoms — usually isotopes of hydrogen — to temperatures in the millions of degrees.

Huge densities and temperatures (millions of degrees, hotter even than the Sun's core) are required to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between the positively charged nuclei involved.

One enduring mystery is why the corona is millions of degrees hotter than the surface of the sun, which is a relatively balmy 5,500 ° Celsius.

Higher up in the sun's atmosphere, though, the temperature jumps to 10,000 ° C and then makes a sudden leap to millions of degrees.

This material fell around and formed a disk circling the black hole, heating up to millions of degrees, and blasting out a beam of energy that marched across the Universe for four billion years until it fell into Swift's detectors.

The Sun's visible surface is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but as you move outward the temperature shoots up to millions of degrees.

The sun's core is literally a nonstop hydrogen - bomb explosion that keeps the solar furnace revved up to tens of millions of degrees.

Scientists hope that the probe will help solve some crucial mysteries about the sun: How can the corona (the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere) be millions of degrees hotter than the solar surface?

A huge explosion around 10 million years ago seems to have hurled this material outward and heated it to millions of degrees.

Black holes that arise from dying stars typically seem to have about 10 times the mass of the sun and heat their surrounding gas to tens of millions of degrees.

Most of this accretion disk is relatively cool, «which means its temperature is in the millions of degrees,» Wilms says.

As it travels inward, and is ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.