Solar Activity and Solar Sails
03/05/23 • 58 min
Rose and Elliott look at the activity of the Sun, what the surface looks like and the importance of magnetic fields. From coronal mass ejections, to flares and sunspots, they discover all the weather you can expect on the Sun before looking at how it can be used to drive spacecraft with solar sails.
Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk
Links relating to this episode:
Near-live images of the Sun and its features: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dashboard/
Solar cycles: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Solar_cycle_25_the_Sun_wakes_up
LightSail: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail
Music:
"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rose and Elliott look at the activity of the Sun, what the surface looks like and the importance of magnetic fields. From coronal mass ejections, to flares and sunspots, they discover all the weather you can expect on the Sun before looking at how it can be used to drive spacecraft with solar sails.
Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk
Links relating to this episode:
Near-live images of the Sun and its features: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dashboard/
Solar cycles: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Solar_cycle_25_the_Sun_wakes_up
LightSail: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail
Music:
"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Get bonus content on PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rose and Elliott dive into the Sun, from the core outwards. They look at where the Sun is headed in it’s old life and whether there are any mid-life crises on the horizon. As well as the difference between the radiative and convective zones and the photosphere and the chromosphere, they discover the surprising mystery lurking at the centre of our solar system: the coronal heating problem.
Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk
Music:
"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk
Links relating to this episode:
Annie Jump Cannon and stellar classification: https://princetonastronomy.com/2021/02/01/annie-jump-cannon-and-the-creation-of-stellar-classification/
Music:
"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Get bonus content on PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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