Sentences with phrase «most powerful flares»

And yet the most powerful flares can lead to major disruptions on Earth, causing interference with telecommunications or knocking out electrical power grids across entire regions of the world.

Predicting the most powerful flares is important for protecting communications as well as satellites and power grids from the surge in energetic particles flares can cause.

The most powerful flare since 2006 (and the eighth largest since monitoring started in June 1996), it disrupted shortwave radio communication over Africa for up to an hour.

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.

Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.

These particles are the by - products of solar flares, the most powerful explosions anywhere in the solar system.

Red dwarfs, by far the most abundant type of star in the galaxy, can create planet - like signals during their powerful flares.

Like the aftershocks of an earthquake, violent x-ray flares have been discovered in the aftermath of gamma - ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe.

One of STEREO's most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system.

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.

It was the most powerful since an enormous X17 flare burst forth in 2005, but even that doesn't stack up against the most intense solar flare ever seen.