Researchers used data collected from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory to identify small signals of the sun’s atmosphere that will help to identify which regions on the sun were more likely to produce solar flares.
NASA says scientists have been watching activity in the lower layers of the sun's atmosphere, which can indicate an impending solar flare in active regions.The Astrophysical Journal"We can get some very different information in the corona than we get from the photosphere, or 'surface' of the sun," KD Leka, lead author on the new study, who is also a designated foreign professor at Nagoya University in Japan, said in a.
NASA said that the scientists used a newly-created image database of the sun's active regions captured by the SDO for their research. The database has eight years of images that were taken above the active areas in ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet light. According to NASA, the new database makes it easier for scientists to use data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on SDO for large-scale studies.
"It's the first time a database like this is readily available for the scientific community, and it will be very useful for studying many topics, not just flare-ready active regions," Karin Dissauer said.
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