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3. A Sudden Conflagration
3. A Sudden Conflagration
Pages 51-60
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. Balfour Stewart On September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington was cloing what he clic!
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, two patches of intensely bright ant! white light broke out....
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was the first known sighting of a solar flare, a suciclen ant! intense heating of the solar atmosphere comparable to an explosion.
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Note the white bands buried amid the black and gray sunspots, depicting the twin bands of the flare as it burst into view around the sunspots. Sketch from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
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begun to suspect that solar activity could increase the auroral activity ant! could induce magnetic storms.
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sun spots, it is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act." Across the Atlantic, Yale University professor Elias Loomis was simultaneously stuclying ant! analyzing that link between Carrington's sunspots, the flare, ant!
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. During auroral light shows, extraneous electric currents wouicl flow through the wires, superseding the normal telegraph currents ant!
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not only by magnetic instruments, but also over the whole system of telegraph wires," wrote Loomis. "The magnetic induction either greatly interferer!
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flesh, as telegraph operator Frederick Royce was zapper! by his own equipment.
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to the exact relation between these two great phenomena." IncleecI, it would not be long.
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