{"id":66888,"date":"2017-02-12T23:52:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2017-02-12T23:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:52:15","slug":"science-review-of-storms-on-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/science-review-of-storms-on-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review of Storms on the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Eruptions of light and other forms of radiation from the sun affect conditions on and near Planet Earth, causing geomagnetic storms, solar radiation storms, and radio blackouts.\u00a0 Some types of \u201cstorms on the sun\u201d include solar flares, coronal mass ejections, high-speed solar wind, and solar energetic particles.<\/p>\n

Solar Flare<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Solar flares come from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots.\u00a0 We observe them as bright areas on the sun that can last anywhere from minutes to hours.\u00a0 A solar flare releases energy from visible light throughout the spectrum, including x-rays and ultraviolet light.\u00a0 They impact Earth when they occur on the side of the sun that faces us, because the energy-carrying photons travel in straight lines.<\/p>\n

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Coronal Mass Ejections<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The outermost atmosphere of the sun is called the corona, shaped by strong magnetic fields.\u00a0 If the fields are closed rather than open, parts of the confined solar atmosphere can suddenly erupt, releasing bubbles of gas and solar material in a violent explosion.\u00a0 Tons of matter violently burst through space at millions of miles an hour, impacting anything in its path.\u00a0 The cloud has to be facing Earth to affect the planet.<\/p>\n

High-Speed Solar Wind<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The solar wind is formed along magnetic fields that travel through the Solar system, from large, dark areas in the sun\u2019s corona called \u201ccoronal holes.\u201d\u00a0 Open lines in the sun\u2019s magnetic field allow particles to be more accelerated, creating a high-speed solar wind.\u00a0 If the high-speed solar wind is formed near the equator of the sun, it is more likely to create shock waves that release more energetic particles.<\/p>\n

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Effects on the Earth<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If the magnetosphere of the Earth is impacted by energy from any type of storm on the sun, it undergoes sudden and repeated change.\u00a0 For the most part, the magnetosphere protects us from most particles the sun emits.\u00a0 However, if that stream of magnetic particles is unusually strong or hits the magnetosphere southward, it can enter the atmosphere at the poles and weaken the magnetic field of the Earth (or any other planet it encounters).\u00a0 Although the magnetic field goes back to its normal strength in a number of hours, during the time the magnetic field is interrupted, electrical and radio communications can be brought down.\u00a0 For example, the electrical blackout that affected 6 million people in 1989 was caused by a geomagnetic storm, and radio disruptions often affect aircraft communications.<\/p>\n

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Overview Eruptions of light and other forms of radiation from the sun affect conditions on and near Planet Earth, causing geomagnetic storms, solar radiation storms, and radio blackouts.\u00a0 Some types of \u201cstorms on the sun\u201d include solar flares, coronal mass ejections, high-speed solar wind, and solar energetic particles. Solar Flare Solar flares come from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4016,4017,3717,3720],"class_list":["post-66888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-coronal-mass-ejection","tag-geomagnetic-storm","tag-solar-flares","tag-solar-wind"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}