What is Happening to the Sun?
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
(12:35 GMT)
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online Science Editor
"As far as I know there has been nothing like this before."
-- Dr Paal Brekke, deputy project scientist for SOHO
BBC
The Sun's intense activity in the past week will go into the record books.
Scientists say they have been amazed by the ferocity of the gigantic flares exploding on the solar surface.
The past 24 hours have seen three major events erupt over our star, hurling billions of tonnes of superhot gas into space - some of it directed at Earth.
Researchers are once more predicting colourful displays of aurorae - polar lights - when the charged particles from the Sun crash into our atmosphere.
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Dan
Space/Science » in reply to "Sun more active than for a millennium"
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