Sentences with phrase «of solar flares»

This is an image of a solar flare as seen in H - Alpha.

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

Because of the hazards and short lead times, for decades scientists have been trying to find reliable predictors of solar flares.

The standard 3D model of solar flares has shown that they occur in places where the magnetic field is highly distorted.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's Extreme Ultraviolet Telescope captured these explosions, which were triggered by a series of solar flares over sunspot group 9236, near the center of the sun's Earth - facing disk.

The experiment is designed to investigate the effects of solar flares and galactic cosmic rays: both will bombard astronauts with charged particles in greater numbers once they leave the protection of Earth's magnetosphere.

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The action began around Halloween 2003, when a series of solar flares caused huge eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections, on the surface of the sun.

For his master's thesis, Mena worked on a mathematical model of the astrophysical phenomenon of solar flares.

Active regions on the solar surface, often the sources of solar flares, may form in areas where flows converge, causing magnetic fields to become concentrated.

Here's three coats of Solar Flare alone and without top coat.

Researchers from the Centre de Physique Théorique (CNRS / École polytechnique) and the Laboratoire Astrophysique, Interprétation — Modélisation (CNRS / CEA / Université Paris Diderot) have identified a key phenomenon in the triggering of solar flares.

Here, we have compared the frequency of solar flares with the frequency of superflares on solar - like stars as a function of the flare energy (Methods).

Such red dwarf stars are the most common in the universe and can have more angry outbursts of solar flares and coronal mass ejections than sunlike stars.

The first record of a solar flare and a magnetic storm was noted by astronomer Richard Carrington in 1859.

Dikpati's simulations show that these unusually long currents affect the magnetic fields near the surface, which indirectly determine the number of sunspots and the strength of solar flares.

In this episode: A frigid nebula; Asteroid defense; Dating the arrival of water, A burst of solar flares, and the Tilted Kepler - 56 system

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.

A continent - sized sunspot vanished within an hour of a solar flare earlier this year, marking the first time scientists have seen a spot fade so quickly.

The study, carried out as part of the HéliSol program, thus opens the way to more effective forecasting of solar flares.

«First sightings of solar flare phenomena confirm 3 - D models of space weather.»

The global plasmoid formation observed in the tokamak sheds new light on the magnetic reconnection process and the trigger mechanism of solar flares.

Changes in the energy of particles in the belt could help verify and calibrate models that attempt to quantify the effect on Earth's environment of solar flares and other outbursts from the sun, Bickford notes.

Drawing by Valderrama of the solar flare he observed on 10 September 1886 on a sunspot (with the penumbra shown with hashed lines and the umbra in black).

The successful candidate will work on the analysis and interpretation of solar flare related radio - bursts observed with the VLA, in collaboration with our project partner at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, with the possibility of getting involved in STIX science and operations planning.

The new research could lead to better understanding of solar flares and ejections of material from the Sun's corona.

Observations of solar flare onsets show a rapid increase of hard and soft X-rays, ultra-violet emission with large Doppler blue - shifts associated with plasma upflows, and Hα emission with red - shifts up to 1 — 4 Å [1, 2, 3].

The Solar Physics Group at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD studentship in the area of X-ray imaging of solar flares.

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.

The student will use images and spectra from NASA's RHESSI mission to study the evolution of solar flares and their association with coronal mass ejections.

Recently, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the most advanced spacecraft yet designed to study the sun, has returned never - before - seen details of material streaming outward and away from sunspots, as well as extreme close - ups of activity on the sun's surface and the first high - resolution measurements of solar flares in a broad range of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths.

[Photos: Stunning Photos of Solar Flares & Solar Storms]

Kucera, T. A., Dennis, B. R., Schwartz, R. A. & Shaw, D. Evidence for a cutoff in the frequency distribution of solar flares from small active regions.

In two related experiments, researchers used powerful lasers to recreate a tiny laboratory version of what happens at the beginning of solar flares and stellar explosions, creating something like a gigantic plasma tsunami in space.

One phenomenon which has been brought back into the spotlight in recent years is that of transient magnetic field reversals: patches of magnetic field that seem to «flip» their polarity from positive to negative (or vice versa) in response to the initiation of a solar flare.

The Sun goes through cycles of solar flare activity about every 11 years.

For instance, we do not know why its outer atmosphere has a temperature of over a million K while its visible surface (the photosphere) has a temperature of just 6,000 K. Current topics of scientific inquiry include the Sun's regular cycle of sunspot activity, the physics and origin of solar flares and prominences, the magnetic interaction between the chromosphere and the corona, and the origin of the solar wind.

There are three classifications of solar flares, based on x-ray brightness.

Think on the brilliance of solar flares and the pointed power of a welder's torch.

This one is about the adventures of an American astronaut caught up in the mother of all solar flares (solar mass ejection).

You can view a gameplay trailer of Solar Flare Aurora below, showing off her attacks and special Sky Chi power.

«6 million Kelvin flaring regions» is a series of pencil and ink drawings based on photographs of solar flares that are imperceptible to the naked eye.

What occurs are movements like wind; strange thunder heads or frozen clouds of solar flares.

Rottman and colleagues saw greater reductions in the Sun's energy coming Earthward during a stretch of intense solar activity last October, when several huge sunspots generated a record - breaking string of solar flares.

Latitude dependency of solar flare index — temperature relation occuring over middle and high latitudes of Atlantic — Eurasian region, A. Kilcik et al., 12/2010, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics, Volume 72, Issue 18, pp. 1379 — 1386

The flurry of solar flares and CMEs actually pushed some cosmic rays away from Earth.

However, during the solar maxima a lot of solar flares and highly energetic solar explosions occurs.