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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection |
| Date | 2016-01-15 21:22 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ph4omc-cek.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection >> http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160110.html > > >> Explanation: What's happening to our Sun? Another Coronal Mass >> Ejection (CME)! The Sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many >> erupting filaments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting >> enormous bubbles of magnetic plasma into space. Direct light from the >> sun is blocked in the inner part of the featured image, taken in >> 2002, and replaced by a simultaneous image of the Sun in ultraviolet >> light. The field of view extends over two million kilometers from the >> solar surface. While hints of these explosive events, called coronal >> mass ejections or CMEs, were discovered by spacecraft in the early >> 70s, this dramatic image is part of a detailed record of this CME's >> development from the presently operating SOHO spacecraft. Near the >> maximum of the solar activity cycle, CMEs now typically occur several >> times a week. Strong CMEs may profoundly influence space weather. >> Those directed toward our planet can have serious effects. No, CME's were NOT discovered by spacecraft in the early 70s, this was the first direct observation of a CME as it happend. The first CME noted was the massive storm of 1 September 1859 but it required the discovery of X-rays and the recognition of the ionosphere before it could be understood what happened. -- Jim Pennino
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Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 14:52 -0600
Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-15 21:22 +0000
Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 09:03 -0600
Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 09:55 -0800
Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 18:52 +0000
Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 13:29 -0600
Re: Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 19:45 +0000
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