Sentences with phrase «solar flare erupted»
On August 3rd and 4th 2010, a solar flare erupted from the surface of the Sun coincident with a sunspot equal in area to the Earth.
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Sunspots are areas of intense magnetism, and solar flares erupt when lines of magnetic energy intersect, break, and reconnect, releasing billions of tons of electrically charged particles.
Scientists have discovered a new way to spot solar flares erupting on the far side of the sun.
According to models, solar flares erupt when the currents collide and snap suddenly into new alignments.
Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around.
Not exact matches
Just after midnight Greenwich mean time, a magnitude X4.8 flare erupted from a spot just south of the solar equator.
Typically, when solar structures with opposite magnetic orientations collide, they explosively release magnetic energy, heating the atmosphere with a flare and erupting into space as a coronal mass ejection — a massive cloud of solar material and magnetic fields.
A solar flare can also be seen erupting to the right of the sunspot in the lower right.
A medium - sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the same, large active region of the sun on July 14, 2017
Scientists said they'd be keeping a close eye on the solar region where the flare erupted to monitor for any future bursts.
Due to a rare aligning of all the planets that only happens once every 640,000 years, unprecedented solar flares release neutrinos that heat the earth's core to such a temperature that enormous volcanoes erupt across the globe and earthquakes so large that they can't even be considered earthquakes.