Sentences with phrase «smaller nanoflare»

Understanding what and how particles are accelerated out from these smaller nanoflare explosions can help scientists understand what processes create them.

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One suggests the corona is heated via small explosions called nanoflares lower in the atmosphere.

In April, scientists announced the main reason: small bursts of magnetic energy called nanoflares, which temporarily heat pockets of gas to 20 million degrees.

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.

The NASA - funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket.

Alternatively, micro explosions, termed nanoflares — too small and frequent to detect individually, but with a large collective effect — might release heat into the corona.