Terrestrial and space weather storm scales have a common shortcoming: The scales end at “5.” Nature of course doesn’t know this and sometimes produces a disturbance that is simply off the charts.
Terrestrial and space weather storm scales have a common shortcoming: The scales end at “5.” Nature of course doesn’t know this and sometimes produces a disturbance that is simply off the charts.
A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare. The comprehensive new simulation captures the formation of a solar flare in a more realistic way than previous efforts, and it includes the spectrum of light emissions known to be associated with flares.
On October 6th, the MLSO staff participated in AstroDay 2018, an educational outreach event coordinated by the Mauna Kea Observatories. 3,000 people attended. This was the second occurrence of this event, located in Kailua-Kona, on the west side of Hawaii Island.
Determining the state of the corona prior to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is crucial to understanding and ultimately predicting solar eruptions.
The Sun Today is a single-page website dedicated to displaying the most recent movies from MLSO and other solar instruments. It is designed to display best on an HD display, but will scale properly for mobile devices. Set it as your home page and learn more about...The Sun Today!
The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) satellite was launched in 1980 aboard a NASA Delta rocket. Among SMM's primary science objectives was the study of the dynamics of solar flares and the study of solar magnetic fields associated with the flare phenomenon.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 03/13/2019 - 2:00pm | Alzate, Nathalia | HAO Colloquium - athalia Alzate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 02/27/2019 - 2:00pm | Bussy-Virat, Charles | HAO Colloquium - Charles Bussy-Virat, University of Michigan |
| 03/06/2019 - 2:00pm | Dhadly, Manbharat | HAO Colloquium - Manbharat Dhadly, Naval Research Laboratory |
| 05/01/2019 - 2:00pm | Egeland, Ricky | HAO Colloquium - Ricky Egeland, HAO |
| 02/20/2019 - 2:00pm | Ivan Milic, Ivan | HAO Colloquium - Ivan Milic, University of Colorado |
| 04/10/2019 - 2:00pm | Linsky, Jeffrey | HAO Colloquium - Jeffrey Linsky, CU/JILA |
| 05/15/2019 - 2:00pm | Liu, Hanli | HAO Colloquium - Hanli Liu, HAO |
| 03/20/2019 - 2:00pm | Liu, Huixin | HAO Colloquium - Huixin Liu, Kyushu University |
| 02/13/2019 - 2:00pm | Löhner-Böttcher, Johannes | HAO Colloquium - Johannes Löhner-Böttcher, HAO/Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik |