Sentences with phrase «outer atmosphere expanding»

Not exact matches

The sun can unleash solar storms and solar flares — bursts of X-rays and ultraviolet light — that heat Earth's outer atmosphere, causing the air to expand and rise.

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.

The patterns, some of which also resemble expanding bubbles and mushrooms, arise in the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, where the solar wind is thought to emanate from.

The outer atmosphere will expand significantly, and planet Earth will lie within the Sun's photosphere (the part of the Sun that is not transparent to light).

Well I suppose you can argue that the atmosphere is bounded by the surface of the earth and the outer edge of the universe; but then maybe that Volume is expanding; isn't space supposed to be expanding.