Solar flare

gone over near the beginning of this lecture series. The three suns of this solar system are stars, which contain mainly hydrogen gasses with a lesser amount of helium. Due to the intense force of gravity, the proximity of the hydrogen atoms in the center of these suns results in their nuclei fusing to form helium atoms. This nuclear fusion releases heat and sunlight that reaches Gnaritus and the other planets in this solar system. Hydrogen gas on the sun’s surface is mostly plasma. For…

Jack O’Keefe Ramsdem, Stephen W. "Total Eclipse of the Sun." Sky Watch (1089-4888), Jan. 2017, p. 48. EBSCOhost, With less than a year left, America is getting closer to its solar eclipse. This major event should be happening on August 21st 2017. The solar eclipse will be a one time thing for some people in their lives and they would ever want to have to miss a once in a lifetime opportunity. With social media and just the media in general, this event will be one of the most popular phenomenons…

spacecraft’s, Mariner 4, missions was to carry out the first flybys of Mars. It collected the first close-up photographs of the planet and had a small tape recorder on it as well. It showed us craters on Mars and while in Mars’ solar orbit it also taught us about Mars’ solar wind environment; teaching us about the magnetic field and atmosphere of the planet. There is a current mission happening called MAVEN that hopes to learn more about how fast atmospheric gases are being lost to space today,…

As people decided to sending human into deep space to explore unknown feature of the universe, the environment outside the earth is a big uncertainty with factors that we can’t fully understand yet. Besides the cost and the time we spend during long space travel, stay in the cold, vacuum universe would let astronauts experience different kind of radiation. These radiation may be some ionized particles as electromagnetic waves traveling with high speed and energy. They could come from nearby…

in June of 2013, NASA launched the IRIS solar observatory. IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, was launched to use imaging spectrography on the Sun. NASA’s goal was to determine “how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun 's lower atmosphere. This interface region between the Sun 's photosphere and corona powers its dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the solar wind.” (IRIS mission overview) This…

scenario where a rogue black hole comes into our solar system swallowing our sun and brings darkness to all of human kind. It will follow a group of survivors that were able to get off the planet in an attempt to get to the nearest star. Leaving behind a slowly dying planet. They are met with a number of challenges. The most pressing being the increasing emission in solar weather produced by the black hole’s accretion disk, they constantly need to fix the solar electric sail that not only…

answer to! Will they last millions of years? Billions of years? I’ll just have to wait and see… Although one planet was extremely fortunate, I cannot say the same for one of my other planets. An asteroid came and nearly obliterated a planet in my solar system. This saddens me greatly because this planet had an atmosphere, and great potential for life. This planet won’t be having life on it soon, although I am extremely grateful for the one planet that does have life on it. Year 4,278,289,073:…

Centauri would call for thousands of years. What are the limitations of sendign spacecraft to this star? First and foremost, it would take hundreds to thousands of years to even reach this star. Even though Voyager is approcahing the border of the solar system, it took 35 years to get to where it is at now and this spacecraft requires another 70,000 years to reach proxima Cenauri. If humans traveled to this star they would have to accept the fact that they will never return to Earth. They will…

On March 6, 1716, crowds of people gathered in the streets of England to gaze up at the sky in marvel of the vibrant streams of light that danced across the night sky – an unexplained phenomenon at the time (Fara 1996). This was the first time English astronomer Edmund Halley witnessed this display. This experience led him to publish the first detailed description of what is now commonly known as the “aurora” (P. Brekke and Broms 2013; Bone 2007) (include pic of his drawings). The theories that…

Uranus is the seventh planet of our Solar System for which scientists have about information due to the distance from this planet and Earth (a minimum of 1.6 billion miles [51]). Up until recently, our ability to observe it from afar was near non-existent. This icy gas giant experiences periods of day and night which last for 42 Earth years due to its 110 degrees axis tilt [14]. Uranus is not as stormy as Jupiter or Saturn, but within the 'Spring' section of the plant, where both cold and warm…