Sentences with phrase «solar flares on»

Currently, the Sun is supposed to be entering the quietest phase of its 11 - year cycle, but that hasn't stopped it from blasting forth some of the largest solar flares on record.

An X-ray spectrometer onboard the spacecraft measured the X-ray radiation from the planet's surface, produced by solar flares on the sun, to determine the chemical composition of more than 5,800 lava deposits on Mercury's surface.

The Warwick team used SDO data to study the behaviour of loops following two eruptions: a CME on 3 November 2010 and a solar flare on 8 May 2012.

The new station recorded its first solar flare on Tuesday, and the network can now scan the Sun 24 hours a day — at least during the Northern Hemisphere's summer as there are still gaps in the coverage of the Southern Hemisphere.

This resulted in a solar flare on December 13, 2006.

The main character is Desmond Miles, twenty first century assassin, working to unlock the secrets of a mysterious predator that protects the Earth from a solar flare on December 21, 2012.

Not exact matches

So, come what might, solar flare or cancer... «My soul» was prepared on the 21st just as it was on the 20th and today on the 22nd and will be tomorrow.

This large solar flare, produced by an active region of the sun (AR9077), triggered magnetic storms and knocked out satellites when it created a solar storm on July 14, 2000.

As telltale dark blotches on its surface called sunspots multiply, indicating magnetic upswells, solar flares and CMEs grow in frequency, peaking just after the solar maximum.

The so - called Carrington Event of 1859 began with a bright solar flare and an ejection of magnetized, high - energy particles that produced the most intense magnetic storm ever recorded on Earth.

Solar flares occur when the sun's magnetic field — which creates the dark sunspots on the star's surface — twists up and reconnects, blasting energy outward and superheating the solar surSolar flares occur when the sun's magnetic field — which creates the dark sunspots on the star's surface — twists up and reconnects, blasting energy outward and superheating the solar sursolar surface.

The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.

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.

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are commonplace on our sun, where one moderate eruption a day is normal.

Because they are much smaller than other solar eruptions — like flares or coronal mass ejections — prominences had previously been thought to have a relatively minor effect on the sun's atmosphere, and therefore also on the solar wind.

According to the leading theory, a flare is set off when nearby magnetic fields of opposite polarity break and reconnect, creating a closed loop with two footprints on the solar surface.

The accompanying bars graph the magnitude of huge explosions, known as solar flares, that occurred on each day.

Based on telescope observations of young sunlike stars, researchers estimate that «super» solar flares bombarded Earth with energetic particles at least once a day around 4 billion years ago.

On the other hand, small stars tend to be more active than stars the size of our Sun, sending out more solar flares and potentially more radiation toward a planet's surface.

Scientists have discovered a new way to spot solar flares erupting on the far side of the sun.

JUST before noon on 1 September 1859, an English solar astronomer named Richard Carrington witnessed the biggest solar flare ever recorded.

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

FOXSI's measurements — along with additional X-ray data from the JAXA and NASA Hinode solar observatory — allow the team to say with certainty that the hard X-rays came from a specific region on the Sun that did not have any detectable larger solar flares, leaving nanoflares as the only likely instigator.

Every 11 years or so, the sun's magnetic activity peaks and then troughs, resulting in relatively high and then low numbers of dark spots and flares on the solar surface.

«The magnetic storm on 17 September 1770 was comparable with or slightly larger than the September 1859 magnetic storm that occurred under the influence of the Carrington solar flare.

How do you figure out what powers solar flares — the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots — when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near - Earth's orbit?

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.

Active regions on the solar surface, often the sources of solar flares, may form in areas where flows converge, causing magnetic fields to become concentrated.

One of the aims of space meteorology is to forecast solar flares, in the same way as meteorological services forecast storms on Earth.

Our technologies, which are increasingly dependent on electrical components and on satellites (GPS, telephony, etc), are thus ever more sensitive to solar activity, while such flares can even put astronauts» lives in danger.

11 Duration, in years, of a typical solar cycle, natural variations in the number of sunspots and flares that affect solar irradiance levels on Earth.

In the past, large solar flares have caused blackouts and disrupted communications on Earth.

Analyzing measurements of high - altitude airglow gathered by a satellite in 1992 and 1996 (years of maximum and minimum solar flare activity, respectively), the scientists found 11 cases where airglow, in theory, brightened enough to be seen by observers on the ground, they report in Geophysical Research Letters.

An authority on high - energy solar physics, her research investigated the acceleration and impact of nuclei during solar flares, which affect power transmission systems on Earth.

Scientists have known that solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)-- which release electrically charged plasma from the sun — can damage satellites, cause power outages on Earth and disrupt GPS service.

Changes in the energy of particles in the belt could help verify and calibrate models that attempt to quantify the effect on Earth's environment of solar flares and other outbursts from the sun, Bickford notes.

Drawing by Valderrama of the solar flare he observed on 10 September 1886 on a sunspot (with the penumbra shown with hashed lines and the umbra in black).

The largest solar explosions are classified as extraordinary, or X class, solar flares based on their X-ray emission.

The first solar flare was recorded by British astronomer Richard C. Carrington on 1 September 1859, and the second was described on 13 November 1872 by the Italian Pietro Angelo Secchi.

The first PhD studentship, fully funded by the Royal Society for 4 - years, is available for a UK / EU student on the topic of «The high energy emission from small solar flares».

Given we're close to the solar minimum there's not much happening on the surface of the sun at the moment but you can still see the odd flare or prominence occasionally.

However, a flare the size of a solar flare occurring on a red dwarf star (such as Groombridge 34 A or B) that is more than ten thousand times dimmer than our Sun would emit about as much or more light as the red dwarf itself, doubling its brightness or more.

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

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.

During solar flares, variation in the solar flux in the spectral range extending from the UV to the X-ray wavelengths can have a direct effect on the ionization of the atmospheres of planetary bodies as well as on their heating and dimensions (for details see Schunk & Nagy 2009).

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.

However, a flare the size of a solar flare occurring on a red dwarf star (such as Proxima Centauri) that is more than ten thousand times dimmer than our Sun would emit about as much or more light as the red dwarf does normally.

However, a flare the size of a solar flare occurring on a red dwarf star (CM Draconis) that is more than ten thousand times dimmer than our Sun would emit about as much or more light as the red dwarf does normally.

Scientists dread finding out what a strong solar flare like that could do to us, so heavily dependent on electronic devices for, well, most everything.

The successful candidate will work on the analysis and interpretation of solar flare related radio - bursts observed with the VLA, in collaboration with our project partner at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, with the possibility of getting involved in STIX science and operations planning.