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Relativistic time effects or gravitational lensing in solar observations made by observatories and satellites?
As mentioned, I was wondering about whether there are any phenomena affecting the measurement made in Earths time-scale after a physics seminar at IISERTVM. Any discussions and answers from specific ...
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Is it possible to predict the appearance of auroras?
Yesterday I saw online a lot of people seeing auroras both in the North and in the South of the globe. Unfortunately, I wasn't one of these people, and this got me curious about how much we can ...
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What is the solar wind speed as function of distance from the Sun?
Someone must have calculated at least a "zero-order approximation" of the behavior of solar wind speed, density, and pressure as a function of distance from the Sun, but the heck if I can find it. ...
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What's the timescale for the formation of a coronal mass ejection?
How quickly does the sun form and release a coronal mass ejection?
If we were watching the right part of the sun closely, how long would it take us to go from "nothing seems to be happening" to "...
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