Sentences with phrase «of high energy particles»

The more that we can understand about the Sun, the better we will be able to predict solar weather and hopefully avoid the outages of satillite communications and the potential damaging effects that large streams of high energy particles can have on power grids.

A LONG - STANDING mystery about the origin of the highest energy particles arriving from outer space has been solved.

The Sun is the closest star to us and building an understanding of this huge big ball of nuclear fusion will allow us to improve this planet's own resilience to Sun's infrequent burbs of high energy particles that can create havoc to do with satellites and power grids.

About 400,000 years after the initial explosion, the primordial soup of high energy particles cooled down to become a neutral hydrogen gas.

Possible applications range from the dissipation of magnetic energy in fusion devices on Earth to the acceleration of high energy particles in solar explosions called solar flares (Animation 1 and Image 2).

This is because the solar wind modulates the flux of high energy particles coming from outside the solar system.

We don't know a lot about the processes that cause these streams of high energy particles, scientists want to understand more about why the corona of the Sun is so much hotter than the surface and why the solar wind is accelerated to such a high speed.