Sentences with phrase «powerful solar flare»

On November 8th and 9th an especially powerful solar flare and CME sprayed SOHO's CCD camera with a cloud of high - energy particles, creating snowy pictures.

The sun's 11 - year activity cycle is currently approaching solar minimum, and during this time powerful solar flares become scarce and coronal holes become the primary space weather phenomena — this one in particular initiated aurora throughout the polar regions.

Satellites have detected powerful solar flares in the last two months, but this phenomenon has been recorded for over a century.

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.

After waging war for the freedom of Humanity and driving them back, Mankind and the first civilization was undone by a very powerful solar flare, which brought the technology of that time tumbling into the dust.

During the last two months, several of these powerful solar flares have been observed, some with associated coronal mass ejections that, in turn, can produce geomagnetic storms that perturb the communication systems in some regions of Earth, especially radio broadcasts and GPS systems.

Several ground - based telescopes operated by the National Solar Observatory took detailed observations of a powerful solar flare, which erupted on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 1:04 EST..

The sun popped off a powerful solar flare this week, its biggest burst in 2015 and one that temporarily knocked out radio communications in the Pacific region, according to NASA.