The solar flare aspect of a prominence has the most common effect on the earth. Normally, the magnetic field surrounding earth deflects harmful solar radiation. If not, life would be impossible. The X-ray and UV radiation emitted in a solar flare, however, can penetrate the earth's natural...
An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has cataloged around 200 oscillations of the solar prominences during the first half of 2014. Its development has been possible thanks to the GONG network of te...
Thus a dip at the field line summit is needed before a prominence can form. We investigate different ways of forming such an upward curvature. Results with a twisted flux tube or a sheared arcade are reviewed, and a third possibility, namely a quadrupolar region is proposed....
Similarly, the closer we are to the peak, the more eruptions from the Sun's surface we tend to see. These coronal mass ejections are the result of coronal loops snapping during a solar flare, or when an immense solar prominence destabilizes and peels aw...
Huge tubes of gas circle the sun's interior at high latitudes and begin to move toward the equator. When they roll against each other, they form spots. When they reach the equator, they break up and sunspots decline. Solar Prominences ...
This artist’s impression reveals the various ways in which solar activity can affect the Earth, which is collectively known as ‘space weather’. Immense coronal loops stretch away from the Sun’s ‘surface’ (left), with giant prominences arcing across its surface...
Dante’s Inferno describes the Devil’s wings as being very much like bat wings in form and texture. Vampirism was well established in Eastern European folklore before Bram Stoker’s depiction of Count Dracula routinely transforming himself into a huge vampire bat. Other regions of the world are...
to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators ‘settlers’. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they...
Some indicators also lag sustainability priorities that have increased in prominence over the last eight years, such as diversity and inclusion, social justice, plastic pollution, food waste, scope 3 (value chain) emissions and preserving biodiversity. Although these challenges are integrated into the ...
23, 2008, marking a new solar cycle. Photo courtesy of NASA Through telescope images we can see several interesting features on the sun that can have effects here on Earth. Let's take a look at three of them: sunspots, solar prominences and solar flares. Sunspots These cool, ...