Questions tagged [solar-flare]
Questions regarding a sudden brightness increase due to the release of magnetic energy from the sun.
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What are the main differences between solar flares and coronal mass ejections?
Specifically, what causes them, what sort of damage can they cause, and what are the differences in their composition?
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What could be the cause of solar "campfires"?
NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter mission just released its first images. They show an ubiquitous feature: miniature flares called "campfires", much smaller than solar flares.
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How do large solar flares compare to flares on other stars?
Solar flares are violent releases of solar magnetic energy. Other stars are also known to have magnetic fields, in some cases much stronger than the Sun. How do the largest stellar flares compare to ...
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Is the mechanism of solar flares on red dwarfs and brown dwarfs the same as that on the Sun?
The Sun has solar flares that are caused when there is a magnetic reconnection in the Sun's atmosphere, causing a loop of magnetic field to be ejected at high energy, along with a large number of ...
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What triggers solar flares?
The sun is a big ball of hot plasma which contains free electrons. However, how does the absence of metallic elements in the sun generate the magnetic field to orchestrate these free electrons to ...
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Strength of the relationship between very large solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar proton events?
In the years 774-775 and 993-994, there were large peaks in Earth's atmospheric radiocarbon (14C) concentration. While the cause was initially disputed, Mekhaldi et al.'s 2015 study of annually ...
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Directionality of solar flares
I have read a number of articles about Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and solar flares and I’m trying to establish how directional the radiation from them is.
I am aware that radiation from these solar ...
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Solar flares/CME dangers to life?
I know a repeat of the 1859 Carrington Event (coronal mass ejection) would pose a severe risk to power grids and telecommunication networks but wouldn't pose an immediate threat to life.
If a large ...
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Is life (as we know it) even possible around M-class stars?
My Question is about the fascination in looking for life on M class or Red Dwarf stars.
We all know that Most stars (70%) are M Class, so looking at those stars is going to be important. The "...
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Can hot Jupiters cause solar flares?
I'm very new at Astronomy, and my knowledge is sparse. I've tried to be conscientious about my Wikipedia research but there's going to be a lot of things I don't know. Thanks for your patience.
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How bad could we reasonably expect a solar flare to impact earth, and what can be done to mitigate the impact?
According to numerous articles, solar flares have done damage to the power grid on Earth in the past: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/
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Physical properties of the stellar corona?
I am after the basic physical properties of the corona of a star, here some questions for which I would like to have an answer, even only for a subset of them:
I know some things about the corona of ...
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