Sentences with phrase «powerful solar flares»

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.

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

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.

Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.

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 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.

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.

Not exact matches

At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare — the most powerful sun - storm category — blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface.

These findings also indicate that nanoflares are powerful, natural particle accelerators despite having energies about a billion times lower than large solar flares.

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

One of STEREO's most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system.

The initial blast from this record - setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded.

Sunspots are magnetically active regions that can trigger coronal mass ejections, solar flares and produce powerful streams of solar wind — all of which can generate powerful geomagnetic storms on Earth.

It was the most powerful since an enormous X17 flare burst forth in 2005, but even that doesn't stack up against the most intense solar flare ever seen.

Discouragingly, a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal suggests that planets in orbit around red dwarfs may be subject to tremendously powerful and frequent solar flares, making it difficult — if not impossible — for life to emerge in such systems.

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.

In the week that followed, it unleashed the strongest solar flare in more than a decade (X9 - class), hurled a powerful CME toward Earth, and sparked a severe geomagnetic storm (G4 - class) with Northern Lights appearing as far south as Arkansas.