Scientists: The Sun’s bright corona acts to impede coronal mass ejectionsUsing data gathered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) since its launch in 1995, scientists have determined that when the Sun’s corona (its atmosphere) is bright, it acts to slow and even block the ejection of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which if they impact the Earth’s magnetic field can have a harmful effect on our modern technology.
Using data from NRL’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) on board the joint European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the NRL team [National Research Laboratory] compiled nearly three decades of observations of the solar corona. They studied the extensive dataset to investigate trends in the brightness of the Sun’s corona and compare them to CME velocities over the same period. Their study found a strong correlation between the two datasets, with bright regions of the solar corona appearing to relate to substantially slower CME velocities and, in some cases, perhaps entirely precluding CMEs.
This data will help solar weather observers better predict the arrival of CMEs, should they erupt from the Sun aimed at Earth. It will also allow them to gauge the risk of CMEs even occurring.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Using data gathered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) since its launch in 1995, scientists have determined that when the Sun’s corona (its atmosphere) is bright, it acts to slow and even block the ejection of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which if they impact the Earth’s magnetic field can have a harmful effect on our modern technology.
Using data from NRL’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) on board the joint European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the NRL team [National Research Laboratory] compiled nearly three decades of observations of the solar corona. They studied the extensive dataset to investigate trends in the brightness of the Sun’s corona and compare them to CME velocities over the same period. Their study found a strong correlation between the two datasets, with bright regions of the solar corona appearing to relate to substantially slower CME velocities and, in some cases, perhaps entirely precluding CMEs.
This data will help solar weather observers better predict the arrival of CMEs, should they erupt from the Sun aimed at Earth. It will also allow them to gauge the risk of CMEs even occurring.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Interesting, the ball of electrical plasma that surrounds the sun called the Corona (responsible for all the light, heat, and solar wind) Acts as a barrier when magnetic fields in the photosphere get twisted and explode with the power of thousands of hydrogen bombs… deflector shield anyone?
The area with the strongest magnetic fields, the black “Sun spots”, (which are actually brighter than the rest of the sun but they shine in the UV spectrum and we don’t see it) is also the area with the least amount of plasma above it. (Corona holes) The magnetic field is “resistance” causing electrical activity (plasma) to move around it. (The path of least resistance) The light (Electric activity from “micro flares”) are forced through the strong magnetic field at a higher energy level or frequency in the UV range giving those areas a black appearance. The magnetic field also dampens normal activity causing the area on the sun surface to be less temperature, from 9500° to 7000°F.
The temperature also gets colder the further you get from the Sun’s surface. From a maximum of 10,000°F to as low as 6000°F. (A loss of heat of less than 2°F per mile of hydrogen, As compared to earth atmospheric heat loss of 5.4°F per thousand feet of nitrogen/oxygen… less when there’s humidity)
You reach the chromosphere 2000 to 3000 miles above the photosphere where the temperature begins to climb drastically. Then you reach the corona at about 6000 miles above the surface of the sun.
Even though the solar output varies less than 1% in brightness, The corona can be anywhere from 2,000,000 to 30,000,000°F (possibly double this number) which I believe this article is referring to when it talks about the regions of brighter corona.
The most fascinating part is the output of the corona is approximately 40,000 times higher on average than the surface of the sun. A second law violation.
from Wikipedia; (My personal preference of proposed theories)
“Magnetic reconnection is hypothesized to be the mechanism behind solar flares, the largest explosions in the Solar System. Furthermore, the surface of the Sun is covered with millions of small magnetized regions 50–1000km across. These small magnetic poles are buffeted and churned by the constant granulation. The magnetic field in the solar corona must undergo nearly constant reconnection to match the motion of this “magnetic carpet”, so the energy released by the reconnection is a natural candidate for the coronal heat, perhaps as a series of “microflares” that individually provide very little energy but together account for the required energy.”
“The idea that nanoflares might heat the corona was proposed by Eugene Parker in the 1980s but is still controversial.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_corona
Proven by the Soho satellite nearly 30 years ago, books were written of the discoveries but it was never excepted in main stream science.
And the story gets better, new calculations on Uranus resulting from passing in front of a star. Uranus emits 12.5% more energy than it receives from the sun, more than previously known, but still less than the other gas giants which emit 100% more. (under their atmosphere, they are all hotter than the photosphere the sun… Jupiter nearly 4 times hotter)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/uranus-energy-planet-sun
The articles will tell you that they’re still “cooling down from being created four billion years ago”… they’re just cooling much slower than our “SUN”… Or there is another mechanism they’re not taking into consideration. (The ideal gas law‘s have been proven correct, why does science look the other way?) Is it to save the greenhouse theory which has never been observed in nature ever?
Captured this anomaly on Titan from physics.org;
While previous studies have suggested Titan’s energy budget is in balance, the researchers determined that both emitted thermal energy and absorbed solar energy decreased over the 14-year period studied. But thermal emissions dropped less—about 6.8%, compared with an 18.6% drop in solar energy at Titan.
Interesting? The energy drops but Titan stays warm.
The anomaly only happens on planets with atmosphere… The thicker the atmosphere the hotter the planet.
Earth emits more heat than it receives from the sun… The earth and the moon are in the same green zone, but the earths average temperature is 100° warmer then the moons average temperature at its equator. (The craters in the polar regions are as cold as Pluto)
Here is a chart created by NASA. If you have the ability of critical thinking… The first thing you notice is the greenhouse emits as much energy as our Sun on the top of the atmosphere. 340 W per meter squared, minus the net absorbed energy of .6 that’s it, .6… and yet the greenhouse is still invisible. As hot as the sun? Yeah right!
https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/dmw2158/solar-radiation-the-earths-energy-balance/
You’ll also notice that the yellow incoming radiation is during the peak of the day, only a few hours before it drops to zero. The outgoing radiation in red is continuous all night long. There’s no admitting of anything funny going on? How Energy is radiated all night without a source, dropping maybe 30°? While the moon drops 550°F. ???
Just another planet with an atmosphere emitting heat without an obvious heat source. (it must be heat left over from earths creation 3 billion years ago that all that ocean and rain can’t cool down)
rant over.
I wonder if this can be harnessed in any way.
Statites that could double as probes.
Whatever probe is “above” the shot that breaks through drops it’s ballast and surfs out Starwisp style.
Earlier this week at phys.org was an article on how a tabletop apparatus can generate megatesla fields.
I was hoping that someone would notice, and comment on this 10 year study. The critical thinking of observation is in your face on this diagram, they discovered without any fanfare that earth receives 340 W per meter squared… but the outgoing radiation is nearly 400 W per meter squared.
Earth emits more heat that it gets from the sun.
Just like all of the planets with an atmosphere.
Even in cold Antarctica, after six months zero sunlight, is still emitting heat (long wave radiation) into the cold of space….
All the evidence is before you, use the scientific method where you live and discover the truth… And the truth will set you free, no one can fool you or have power over you.
Max,
The planets that you have noted are emitting more energy than they receive all have molten cores and are still cooling. In order to cool, they must necessarily emit more energy than they receive. If it were the other way around, then they would be warming.
The planets and moons that no longer have molten cores no longer have strong magnetic fields, which protect planetary atmospheres from the effects of the solar wind. Mars is losing its water and its atmosphere because its magnetic field is too weak to protect it.
Antarctica emits heat because its temperature is above absolute zero. Anything that has a temperature emits heat, but once an object reaches the background radiation temperature, it will both collect and radiate heat, becoming steady state at the temperature of the background radiation. Plus the net heat falling on it from the nearby stars, planets, black holes, and any other heat sources.
I think the problem you have with the story at your link is that the story has ignored the heat of the core. It failed to show the complete system and left you wondering where 60 watts per square meter were coming from.
The temperature of the Moon drops more at night, without solar radiation input to heat it, than the Earth’s surface cools at night. This is very true. However there is a reason the Moon cools more at night: the lunar night is almost 30 times longer than an Earth night. There is much more time to cool than on the Earth, and the Moon has no atmosphere to distribute heat and to even out the temperature.
The Knack comes to mind . . .
tangentially related….
“What Color Is Our Sun?”
Looking Glass Universe (May, 2025)
https://youtu.be/P_i_brAKGfo
22:44
Wayne, she’s funny… She gets out the markers. Draws her own illustrations.
Edward, where to begin.
“The planets that you have noted are emitting more energy than they receive all have molten cores and are still cooling.”
I would argue that the core is molten because they’re still heating not cooling. If they were cooling their temperature would drop… Like 3 billion years ago. measurements would show that it’s cooling down not heating up to a “equilibrium” and remaining constant… Hotter than the sun constant.
“The planets and moons that no longer have molten cores no longer have strong magnetic fields, which protect planetary atmospheres from the effects of the solar wind. Mars is losing its water and its atmosphere because its magnetic field is too weak to protect it”
Mars is too small with two little gravity to hold an atmosphere that is very thick, even though atmospheric pressure is only 7 mbar, The weak gravity allows the atmosphere to extend further in to space than earths atmosphere does, allowing the solar wind to blow it away.
Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field, but the magnetism comes from the atmosphere where the pressure is so great, the air turns to plasma creating electrical currents that makes the magnetism. The magnetic field surrounds the planet and does not pass through like a bar magnet… liquid or not.
A better example would be Venus, very little magnetic field but has an atmosphere 32 times that of earth even though it’s slightly smaller and less dense. Hotter than mercury sun side… Venus is 860° On both sides of the planet even though it barely rotates. Is it still cooling?
You mentioned that earth emits more heat because it’s core is still cooling, I went outside and put my hand to the ground and it feels cold to me. A temperature gauge confirms it, not much heat radiating from the ground.
“However there is a reason the Moon cools more at night: the lunar night is almost 30 times longer than an Earth night. There is much more time to cool than on the Earth, and the Moon has no atmosphere to distribute heat and to even out the temperature.”
Yes! You’re starting to get it… The moon has no atmosphere to generate the heat!
Even though it has a longer night, (Antarctica’s night is six times longer) the heat is gone within hours of sunset just as the heat disappears from the space station every time it dips into earths shadow.
When the astronauts landed on the moon, they did so near sunrise so their batteries for generating heat or cold would last longer. Even though the sunlight is 250°, the shadows are still 300° below zero soaking up that heat.
It was a long 12 hour graveyard shift, i’m starting to fall asleep and I’m not sure if I’m making any sense.
Well, Max, you specifically requested comments: “I was hoping that someone would notice, and comment on this 10 year study.” If you didn’t want to know the answer, then why did you ask the question? Yes, I want to know why you asked for comments if you were going to reject them.
“Yes! You’re starting to get it… The moon has no atmosphere to generate the heat!”
You don’t get it at all. Atmospheres do not generate heat. Unless they are on fire, in which case it is not the atmosphere generating the heat but the chemical reaction.
“When the astronauts landed on the moon, they did so near sunrise” for the shadows, not the batteries. Today’s commercial lunar landers may have different reasons for their landing requirements, but Apollo could not safely launch off the surface if the lander was at an angle greater than 12° so landing with the sun 10° above the horizon allowed them to land relatively safely on the shadow-side of a rise or a crater, but beyond the shadow, where the ground is less than 10° from horizontal. Apollo needed a way to make sure they didn’t land on too great of an angle, and they chose shadows as a good visual method. You may enjoy the book “How Apollo Flew to the Moon” by W. David Woods.