Solar physics is the branch of astrophysics that specializes in the study of the Sun. It intersects with many disciplines of pure physics and astrophysics...
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ejections, solar particle events, and other eruptive solar phenomena. The occurrence of solar flares varies with the 11-year solar cycle. Solar flares are...
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Astrophysics (redirect from Astro physics)
studied in celestial mechanics. Among the subjects studied are the Sun (solar physics), other stars, galaxies, extrasolar planets, the interstellar medium...
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Total Solar Irradiance data Archived 2013-07-06 at the Wayback Machine updated every Monday N0NBH Solar data and tools SolarCycle24.com Solar Physics Web...
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In solar physics and observation, granules are convection cells in the Sun's photosphere. They are caused by currents of plasma in the Sun's convective...
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Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
(March 2015). "On the Determination and Constancy of the Solar Oblateness". Solar Physics. 290 (3): 673–687. Bibcode:2015SoPh..290..673M. doi:10.1007/s11207-015-0655-6...
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The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of...
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Solarization refers to a phenomenon in physics where a material undergoes a temporary change in color after being subjected to high-energy electromagnetic...
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In solar physics, a prominence, sometimes referred to as a filament, is a large plasma and magnetic field structure extending outward from the Sun's surface...
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The Dunn Solar Telescope, also known as the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope, is a unique vertical-axis solar telescope that specializes in high-resolution...
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The Institute for Solar Physics (Swedish: Institutet för solfysik) is a Swedish research institute. It is managed as an independent institute associated...
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Space physics, also known as space plasma physics, is the study of naturally occurring plasmas within Earth's upper atmosphere and the rest of the Solar System...
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Observatory, La Palma in the Canary Islands. It is run by the Institute for Solar Physics of Stockholm University. The primary element is a single fused silica...
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Sunspot (redirect from Solar pore)
2023). "Waves in the lower solar atmosphere: the dawn of next-generation solar telescopes". Living Reviews in Solar Physics. 20 (1) 1. Springer Nature...
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In solar physics, a spicule, also known as a fibril or mottle, is a dynamic jet of plasma in the Sun's chromosphere about 300 km in diameter. They move...
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Helioseismology (redirect from Solar oscillation)
in stellar models and must instead be a problem of particle physics. The so-called solar neutrino problem was ultimately resolved by neutrino oscillations...
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Society. Citation: "For fundamental contributions to space physics, plasma physics, solar physics and astrophysics for over 60 years." 2020: Crafoord Prize...
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Carrington Event (redirect from The Solar Tempest of 1859)
(PDF). Solar Physics. 224 (1–2): 407–422. Bibcode:2004SoPh..224..407C. doi:10.1007/s11207-005-4980-z. S2CID 120093108. "Near miss: The Solar superstorm...
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He was a leader in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray line spectrometry, nuclear astrophysics, and low-energy cosmic...
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Stellar corona (redirect from Corona (physics))
physics Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than the Sun's surface? More unsolved problems in physics The coronal heating problem in solar physics...
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A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, with a magnitude of 1.0386. A solar eclipse occurs...
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interactions in the solar corona". Solar Physics. 18 (2): 258. Bibcode:1971SoPh...18..258P. doi:10.1007/BF00145940. S2CID 120816610. "Solar System Exploration:...
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Variations in the Solar Differential Rotation", Solar Physics, 212 (1): 23–49. St. John, C., 1918. "The Present Condition of the Problem of Solar Rotation",...
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Dipankar Banerjee ( born 1965) is an Indian solar physicist. He is a senior Professor of Solar Physics at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (Bangalore)...
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heliophysics, which is an interdisciplinary combination of solar physics and planetary science. In the Solar System, the Sun can produce intense geomagnetic and...
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fellow, research scientist and assistant research professor at the Solar Physics Group at Montana State University, Bozeman, US. He returned to India...
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"Direct observations of low-energy solar electrons associated with a type III solar radio burst". Solar Physics. 27 (2): 446–465. Bibcode:1972SoPh.....
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National Solar Observatory (NSO) is a United States federally funded research and development center to advance the knowledge of the physics of the Sun...
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for Solar Physics (aka: KIS; German: Institut für Sonnenphysik), from 2018 to 2023, the institute's name was Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics, formerly...
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Solar phenomena are natural phenomena which occur within the atmosphere of the Sun. They take many forms, including solar wind, radio wave flux, solar...
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