Tag: solar activity
The future Sun’s Wrath monitoring satellite has a name!
At the end of a competition which took place from May to September 2021, the European Space Agency received 5,422 proposals to name its satellite dedicated to monitoring the Sun.…
What are these dark “finger-like” structures seen in solar flares?
Twenty years that astronomers wonder what really hides behind the dark structures that seem to fall towards the Sun during an eruption. The hypothesis of a consequence of the magnetic…
A powerful solar storm hit Earth 9,000 years ago when the Sun was quiet
The biggest solar flares appear during the most intense periods of activity of our Star. It’s known. But researchers now show that about 9,200 years ago, a major storm erupted…
What are these dark “finger-like” structures seen in solar flares?
Twenty years that astronomers wonder what really hides behind the dark structures that seem to fall towards the Sun during an eruption. The hypothesis of a consequence of the magnetic…
A powerful solar storm hit Earth 9,000 years ago
The biggest solar flares appear during the most intense periods of activity of our Star. It’s known. But researchers now show that around 9,200 years ago, a major storm erupted…
New on these dark structures that “look like fingers” observed during solar flares
Twenty years that astronomers wonder what really hides behind the dark structures that seem to fall towards the Sun during an eruption. The hypothesis of a consequence of the magnetic…
Even calm, the Sun can unleash powerful storms on the Earth, like 9,000 years ago
The biggest solar flares appear during the most intense periods of activity of our Star. It’s known. But researchers now show that around 9,200 years ago, a major storm erupted…
The Sun unleashed a powerful storm on the Earth 9,000 years ago when it was at its calmest
The biggest solar flares appear during the most intense periods of activity of our Star. It’s known. But researchers now show that about 9,200 years ago, a major storm erupted…