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Solar maximum Solar maximum or solar max is a normal period of greatest solar activity in the 11 year solar cycle of the Sun. During solar maximum, large numbers of sunspots appear and the sun's irradiance output grows by about 0.07%.he smoothed sunspot number has already reached 67 (in February 2012) due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high. The smoothed sunspot number has been flat over the last four months.
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Space Weather: Sunspots, Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections Because solar flares form in the same active regions as sunspots, they are connected to these smaller, less violent events. Flares tend to follow the same 11-year cycle. At the peak of the cycle, several flares may occur each day, with an average lifetime of only 10 minutes. The enormous sunspot of 2014 fired off several powerful solar flares. The largest, X-class flares, have the most significant effect on Earth. They can cause long-lasting radiation storms in the upper atmosphere, and trigger radio blackouts. Medium-size M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts in the polar regions and the occasional minor radiation storms.
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The Sun and Sunspots Flare Characteristics. Solar flares are tremendous explosions on the surface of the Sun. In a matter of just a few minutes they heat material to many millions of degrees and release as much energy as a billion megatons of TNT. They occur near sunspots, usually along the dividing line (neutral line) between areas of oppositely directed magnetic fields.
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Convergent evolution Convergent evolution. Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages. Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function but were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups. The cladistic term for the same phenomenon is homoplasy.
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25 facts you should know about the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse Maximum totality is not the longest possible in 2017. The longest possible duration of the total phase of a solar eclipse is 7 minutes and 32 seconds. Unfortunately, the next solar eclipse whose totality approaches 7 minutes won’t occur until June 13, 2132.
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Who Invented the Microscope? Ernst won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work. The electron microscope could achieve much higher resolution because an electron's wavelength is smaller than the wavelength of visible light, especially when the electron is sped up in a vacuum. Both electron and light microscopy advanced in the 20th century.
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White House is preparing for catastrophic solar flares which could wipe out power around the world for months - bringing an end to modern civilization as we know it Massive electromagnetic pulse caused by solar flares could bring an end to modern civilization as we know it. Extreme space weather event could wipe out power for months and render cellphones and internet useless. One study estimates that in the U.S. alone it could cost the fragile economy up to $2.6 trillion.
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- The maximum in this signal occurs near sunspot minimum and is proportional to the sunspot number during the following maximum. This method does allow for a prediction of the next sunspot maximum at the time of sunspot minimum.
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Solar cycle 400 year sunspot history, including the Maunder Minimum. The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 69 in the late Summer of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number reached 68.9 in August 2013 so the official maximum will be at least this high.
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3rd Steinway Youth Piano Competition Semi-Finals 2016 One of the best-known musical events of the world, the renowned biennial International Steinway Festival, is now well underway with various countries concurrently running national-level auditions to determine their representatives for the International Steinway Festival 2016.
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Solar Flares Drive Temps HigherâNot Global Warming Solar Flares Drive Temps Higher—Not Global Warming. (Earl Wheeler) – Sun erupts with the summer’s strongest solar flare. So reads a headline in a recent MSNBC story. As we suffer from a seemingly un-naturally hot start to the summer, you might wonder what sunspots have to do with the weather here on earth. The short answer is – a lot.
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- Well, if you want to be really picky about it, a solar flare can't hit the Earth. It's an eruption on the surface of the sun. But a big flare can send a solar super storm hurtling towards Earth. It could blast us back into the days before electricity.
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List of solar eclipses in the 21st century So far, the longest duration in which the moon totally covered the sun, known as totality, was during the solar eclipse of July 22, 2009. This total solar eclipse had a maximum duration of 6 minutes and 39 seconds. The longest possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7 minutes and 32 seconds. The longest annular solar eclipse of the 21st century took place on January 15, 2010, with a duration of 11 minutes and 8 seconds. The possible maximum duration is 12 minutes and 29 seconds.
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- The sun rises at the North Pole on the Spring Equinox, approximately March 21, and the sun rises higher in the sky with each advancing day, reaching a maximum height at the Summer Solstice, approximately June 21. Summer.
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Solar Flares In this way solar flares can be similar in effect to coronal mass ejections which are regarded as being the primary source of disturbances at the Earth.
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Solar flares: everything you need to know A solar flare is a large explosion of magnetic energy in the Sun’s atmosphere which causes an intense burst of increased brightness. They cannot be detected by the naked eye from the surface of the earth but can be observed through telescopes, space x-rays and thermal imaging equipment.
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What is the longest possible duration of a solar eclipse? On 16 July 2186, an eclipse with a maximum duration of 7 minutes, 29 seconds will be visible across northern South America, but again the point of maximum duration will be over the ocean. This is the longest calculated eclipse thus far, and indicates that there may be a upper limit of around 7 minutes, 30 seconds.
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Two big solar storms have hit Earth â creating stunning auroras and a few disruptions An X1.6 class solar flare flashes in the middle of the sun on Sept. 10, 2014. This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 304 Angstrom wavelengths.
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Antidepressants Have No Effect on Bone Loss Two previous studies looked at changes in BMD among users of SSRIs. In one, in which patients' mean age was 80, there was an association between bone loss and these medications, while the other, from the Women's Health Initiative, found no link.
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Intense Solar Flare May Supercharge Northern Lights A solar flare that erupted on the sun this week could intensify the northern lights Thursday and Friday (Jan. 9 and 10), and perhaps bring dazzling auroras as far south as Seattle, Chicago and Boston, space weather officials say. The sun unleashed an X1.2-class flare on Tuesday (Jan. 7), its first major solar flare of 2014
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Intense Solar Flare May Supercharge Northern Lights The sun goes through 11-year cycles and is now in an active phase of Solar Cycle 24, which began in 2008. The biggest solar flare unleashed in recent months was an X3.3-class flare that erupted from the sun on Nov. 5, 2013. The event stimulated some impressive auroral displays, as these time-lapse videos of the northern lights from Sweden show.
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Solar maximum The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 66 in the Summer of 2013.The smoothed sunspot number has already reached 67 (in February 2012) due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high.The smoothed sunspot number has been flat over the last four months.he smoothed sunspot number has already reached 67 (in February 2012) due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high. The smoothed sunspot number has been flat over the last four months.
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Solar wind The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with energies usually between 1.5 and 10 keV; embedded in the solar-wind plasma is the interplanetary magnetic field.
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- Solar Maximum. During a 'solar max' sunspot activity is heightened offering more chances to see the northern lights. Sunspots are dark, cool areas of the sun's surface which erupt causing the sun to fire out its solar flares or charged particles-the catalysts for the northern lights.
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- Meaning of Geneva. German name. In German, the name Geneva means-Of the race of women.. Other origins for the name Geneva include-German, French, French.The name Geneva is most often used as a girl name or female name. German Name Meaning-Of the race of women.
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- The explosive heat of a solar flare can't make it all the way to our globe, but electromagnetic radiation and energetic particles certainly can. Solar flares can temporarily alter the upper atmosphere creating disruptions with signal transmission from, say, a GPS satellite to Earth causing it to be off by many yards. Another phenomenon produced by the sun could be even more disruptive.