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Let me preface this Chicken Little article by noting that I thought the Y2K hysteria was silly, and most solar flare hype is silly too.
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Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around visible sunspot groupings.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
When they detect iron - XII, they know they are witnessing the sun's most energetic event — a solar flare.
These particles are the by - products of solar flares, the most powerful explosions anywhere in the solar system.
Like hurricanes in the Atlantic, solar flares have a season: the two - to - three - year period of the solar cycle when the sun is most active.
Four were X-class solar flares, the most intense kind.
But in this case, there was no observable solar flare, meaning the hot material was most likely produced by a series of solar flares so small that they were undetectable from Earth: nanoflares.
This indicated that the neutrons were most likely produced by accelerated flare particles striking the lower solar atmosphere, releasing neutrons as a result of high - energy collisions.
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.
Scientists dread finding out what a strong solar flare like that could do to us, so heavily dependent on electronic devices for, well, most everything.
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.
As well as keeping an eye out for solar flares, it will also be looking well past the Sun to gain a better grasp of the earliest, most distant galaxies we have ever observed to give astronomers a better idea of what happened in the very early days of our Universe, and perhaps shed light on how the relationship between gravity and dark matter evolved.
Flares are the most violent eruptions in the solar system, while coronal mass ejections are less violent but involve extraordinary amounts of matter — a single ejection can spout roughly 20 billion tons (18 billion metric tons) of matter into space.
Within the solar cycle, solar storms such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are most numerous within a several - year period known as the solar maximum.
This year has been the record of the most violent solar storms, producing the strongest coronal flares from the sun.
Flashes of small solar flares can be seen triggering most of these spurts.