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A '''solar storm''' is a disturbance on the [[Sun]], which can emanate outward across the [[heliosphere]], affecting the entire [[Solar System]], including [[Earth]] and its [[magnetosphere]], and is the cause of [[space weather]] in the short-term with long-term patterns comprising [[space climate]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanaoka |first1=Yoichiro |last2=Watanabe |first2=Kyoko |last3=Yashiro |first3=Seiji |editor1-last=Kusano |editor1-first=Kanya |title=Solar-Terrestrial Environmental Prediction |date=2023 |publisher=Springer |location=Singapore |isbn=978-981-19-7765-7 |page=251 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-7765-7_9}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schmieder |first1=Brigitte |title=Extreme solar storms based on solar magnetic field |journal=Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics |date=November 2018 |volume=180 |pages=46–51 |doi=10.1016/j.jastp.2017.07.018 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364682617304261}}</ref> |
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A '''solar storm''' is a disturbance on the [[Sun]], which can emanate outward across the [[heliosphere]], affecting the entire [[Solar System]], including [[Earth]] and its [[magnetosphere]], and is the cause of [[space weather]] in the short-term with long-term patterns comprising [[space climate]]. |
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Revision as of 12:54, 4 April 2023
A solar storm is a disturbance on the Sun, which can emanate outward across the heliosphere, affecting the entire Solar System, including Earth and its magnetosphere, and is the cause of space weather in the short-term with long-term patterns comprising space climate.[1][2]
Types
Solar storms include:
- Solar flare, a large explosion in the Sun's atmosphere caused by tangling, crossing or reorganizing of magnetic field lines
- Coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive burst of plasma from the Sun, sometimes associated with solar flares
- Geomagnetic storm, the interaction of the Sun's outburst with Earth's magnetic field
- Solar particle event (SPE), proton or energetic particle (SEP) storm
See also
- List of solar storms
- Aurora, a luminous phenomenon induced by ionization and excitation of constituents of a planet's upper atmosphere
- Heliophysics, the scientific study of the Sun and region of space affected by the Sun
- Magnetic cloud, a transient disturbance in the solar wind
- Solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of sunspot activity
- Solar cycle 25, the current cycle
- Solar prominence, a plasma and magnetic structure in the Sun's corona
- Solar wind, the stream of particles and plasma emanating from the Sun
- Active region, where most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate
- ^ Hanaoka, Yoichiro; Watanabe, Kyoko; Yashiro, Seiji (2023). Kusano, Kanya (ed.). Solar-Terrestrial Environmental Prediction. Singapore: Springer. p. 251. ISBN 978-981-19-7765-7.
- ^ Schmieder, Brigitte (November 2018). "Extreme solar storms based on solar magnetic field". Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 180: 46–51. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2017.07.018.
