August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...one or both of the ejecta brought a plug of solar atmosphere to the magnetic field surrounding Earth. Over several hours this... no one knew of the ultra-fast CME blasting through the solar atmosphere toward Earth. It would set a record, still held, for...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... and environmental constraints include radiation, micrometeoroids, gravity, dust mitigation, temperature extremes, diurnal cycle, and atmospheric conditions. Checklist of space architecture design issues (David Nixon, 2018). Other challenges related...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... a magnetic loop, that had extended through the sunspot and to the solar atmosphere, into a gigantic magnetic bubble that trapped an enormous amount of solar atmospheric material. Becoming buoyant, the bubble moved rapidly outward into the...
11 July 2018
High hopes for Hi-C mission to reveal secrets of the Sun
... latest mission to help resolve current questions about connections between the hot and cool regions of the solar atmosphere. Their task will be aided by the addition of images taken with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... by the community into extrapolating the field (measured at the surface via the Zeeman Effect) up into the solar atmosphere. The simplest of these approximations assumes that the electrical currents are negligible, so that the magnetic field...
June 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... surface and essentially provide all of the energy for heating the solar atmosphere and driving energetic transient events like solar flares. The solar constant The Sun’s production of light (radiant energy) originates in nuclear fusion reactions...
