Sun Releases a Powerful Burst of Radiation – An X1-Class Solar Flare Powerful X-class Solar Flare Erupts From Sun NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Spots Burst of Light and Energy on the Sun: A B-Class Flare NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Views M-Class Solar Flare NASA...
"We are heading toward solar minimum, but the interesting thing about that is you can still have events, they're just not as frequent," Steenburgh said. "We're not having X-flares every day for a week, for instance — the activity is less frequent, but no less potentially strong." ...
“We are heading toward solar minimum, but the interesting thing about that is you can still have events, they’re just not as frequent,” Steenburgh said. “We’re not having X-flares every day for a week, for instance — the activity is less frequent, but no less potentially strong....
The Jan. 12 solar flare has been classified as an M5.6-class sun storm. "M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares," according to a statement from NASA. "The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as ...
This energy can travel about 93 million miles to Earth, where it can impact our technology. In fact, radiation from solar flares can disrupt long-distance radio signals, damage satellites and other instruments. For example, aX2.2 solar flareon February 17 led to a "strong radio blackout" on...
Solar flares involve a release of the Sun's magnetic energy as X-radiation, particle beams and high-speed plasma flows. But we have discovered, using data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), that these flares also affect the Sun's interio
This point to the likely solar origin of the event, which is the greatest solar event on a multi-millennial time scale, placing a strong observational constraint on the theory of explosive energy releases on the Sun and cool stars.doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321080Usoskin, I. G....
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” It forms low in the solar atmosphere around the center of sunspot groups on the Sun where magnetic activity is strong. An image from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, mission shows a detailed scenery of the cooler roots of moss (right). Credit: NASA/Bose et al ...
Es. We survey these pre-eruptive energy releases using observations taken before and during the eruption of several CMEs. Finally, we discuss how the observations can be converted into useful inputs to numerical models that can describe the CME initiation....