Sentences with phrase «of flaring events»

On July 15, 2008, Eli Moore provided public comment to the Richmond City Council about the quantity of flaring events at the Chevron Richmond refinery since 2003 during a hearing on the Draft Environment Impact Report of the Chevron Energy and Hydrogen Renewal Project.

In addition, solar spectral irradiance instruments aboard TIMED and SORCE have observed hundreds of flare events in the 0.1 nm to 190 nm range.

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One thing that's been fascinating to watch over past few months has been the flare - up of brief discussions among both friends and strangers related to particular pieces of information posted on Facebook — usually a status update, but sometimes an event or profile wall comment.

One of those flares was as strong as Earth's 1859 Carrington Event, among the strongest geomagnetic storms ever observed.

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.

The flare was first discovered on Nov. 11, 2014, and scientists have since trained a variety of telescopes on the event to learn more about how black holes grow and evolve.

Two common models for gamma - ray emission from FRBs exist: one invoking magnetic flare events from magnetars — highly magnetized neutron stars that are the dense remnants of collapsed stars — and another invoking the catastrophic merger of two neutron stars, colliding to form a black hole.

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).

Analyzing these recent events may allow physicists to determine the significance of the unexpected distribution observed in the 2002 flare.

Until a few years ago, the commonly held scientific view was that two kinds of solar events affect us — short - duration events caused by solar flares and long - duration events from CMEs.

Nutrient - rich ash from an enormous flare - up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs» reign kicked off a chain of events that led to the formation of shale gas and oil fields from Texas to Montana.

Records of nitric acid and carbon - 14 in ice cores show that we have not had a solar flare bigger than the 1859 «Carrington event» since 1561.

Jennifer Yee, an astronomer at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and KMTNet team member, says that longer monitoring would make it easier to detect the signals of rogue Earths — and to distinguish them from confounding effects such as stellar flares, which can mimic ultrashort microlensing events.

With this, two new phenomena have been discovered: the fast flare... ▽ More The eruption of the recurrent nova U Scorpii on 28 January 2010 is now the all - time best observed nova event.

One of the potentially lethal menaces of space travel comes from being bombarded with energized subatomic particles, expelled from solar flares and events such as supernovas.

(Courtesy NASA / GSFC) Moss Spreading This sequence of 4 images shows the rapid formation and spreading of moss following a minor flare event.

The last major solar flare was the «Carrington event» of 1859, which produced massive worldwide auroral displays and made the telegraph system do some scary things: Aside from delivering shocks to operators, telegraph paper caught fire, and there was enough residual juice in the system to send and receive telegrams even after they shut the network down.

Scientists using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope were able to detect four such events by measuring the infrared glow of dust heated by the flares.

After accounting for false positive events, we infer the presence of 955 (2002 - 2003) and 386 (2007) events we identified as flares.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

Usually following the increased occurrence of solar flares, some of these bursts of magnetic energy have such intensity that they can knock out electrical power grids, affect satellites and disrupt telecommunications — and a single event could cause $ 15 billion worth of damage in Europe alone according to ESA estimates.

Forecasters at NOAA NWS Space Weather Prediction Center are monitoring the energetic particle levels to see if this new CME - flare event, will produce more of these particles.

Superflares are large explosive events on stellar surfaces one to six orders - of - magnitude larger than the largest flares observed on the Sun throughout the space age.

The vast majority of the 100,000 stars observed to experience the flare events as part of the study boast a magnetic field significantly stronger than our Sun.

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.

To treat, cover up where possible and in the event of a flare up, Repair Lotion with its powerful extracts of chamomile and stellaria may help settle the skin down.

The pale lavender shade of the star's strapless Calvin Klein Collection dress with its flared hemline is the perfect palette for her fiery hair and carats (and carats and carats) of Chopard jewelry at the Women in Film event.

As most women prefer this kind of dressing at weddings and events, long frocks with flared fall or heavy fancy embroidery and stone work over the sleeves, border, and neckline.

I also feel like it makes me more excited to attend whatever event it may be when I have a new dress and the dress has a little bit of flare to it!

During her third public appearance since announcing her pregnancy — this time at an event in support of Action on Addiction — Kate wore a fitted flare dress with geometric cutouts (no, that's not her flesh, it's a very royal nude slip).

Godiva's «Hot Chocolate for a Cause» Event: The lady in head - to - toe red wore a pleated Salvatore Ferragamo turtle neck dress which was a striking, yet effortless choice possessing plenty of lady - like flare.

With an abundance of upscale events on the agenda, you look to this ivory fit and flare to carry you through each outing with elegance!

Between involved Assigned Quests with dedicated storylines, cutscenes, and great set piece moments, Optional side quest content, ongoing Investigations, timed Events, responding to SOS flares, and even just open - ended exploration - based Expeditions, there is never a lack of things to do in Monster Hunter: World.

I was cautioned that this event would be more of a procession than a race, but I'm mixing it up with winged Porsche 935s spitting fire from tailpipes and wickedly flared Corvettes making the pavement rumble.

In the event of a major stress within the house, tempers may flare, and inter-cat aggression may become a problem.

There is so much to see over the 11 days of BFI Flare starting on 16th March — from talks to events, club nights to quizzes, sing - a-longs to show - and - tells — that it would be near impossible to talk about all of the treats which lie ahead.

- Shaymin event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pokémon Center has begun - Shaymin is Level 20 holding an Everstone and can have the moves Return, Growth, Seed Flare and Celebrate - Celebrate is a move that Shaymin can not normally learn - when powered with a Z - Crystal, it can turn into Z - Celebrate which boosts all of its stats - event runs until June 30th

The game shares the same writer (Brian Michael Bendis), Mark Bagleys distinct artistic style (with added cel - shading flare), and is officially set after the events of Ultimate Spider - Man # 71.

Kawara's other series include telegrams and letters to friends that inform these individuals of mundane events in the artist's life, or even simply, but in dramatic flare, that the Kawara is still alive.

-- The theorists and field researchers give us every now and then a new big fact (such as the existence, stability, and likely evidence of past events involving sudden releases of methane, plankton feedbacks, solar flare episodes).

But since the climate is dependent on chaos - driven events, such as: sunspots, solar flares, vulcanism, and the actions of humanity, it can also (I believe) be considered a chaotic system.

The only known event that might outrank it is an 1859 solar storm that zapped telegraph lines in an era when solar monitoring could not provide an evaluation of a flare's strength.

Arguments flare up about small control issues or events that are interpreted as indicating a lack of appreciation of each other.