
Star Power!
Although our sun does not generate particularly large sunspots, Rakesh Yadav describes new (and artistic!) simulations showing giant “starspots” that spew out X-rays.
Originally shared by Rakesh Yadav
Scientifically correct “Art”
People usually complain that scientists often use rather boring way of showing their results, you know, lines and graphs and sort. But sometimes we also become a little artistic and play around with colours and other stuff to satisfy both our colleagues and general public (hopefully!).
Below is an artistic “star” which is a result of several months of number crunching on a pretty bad-ass supercomputer. The colours on this handsome star represent the velocity, blueish means plasma is coming towards you and orangish means it is going away from you. The curved lines coming out are magnetic field lines.
We ran this simulation in order to explain a rather intriguing mystery. Our sun, even when it is most active, produces rather tiny sunspots (tiny as compared to the sun!). These sunspots produce certain amount of x-rays which we can measure. When scientists looked at other stars they found that other stars have much higher level of x-rays production. The consensus right now is that these stars have much larger spots, called “starspots”, and much more as compared to the sun (imagine living in that star-system where your host star is spewing out x-rays like crazy). Well, there is not a solid simulation which actually produced bid spots. If you look carefully at the simulation below, then you will see a dark patch in the upper half of the animation, which comes and goes. This is suppose to be a starspot which is rather huge as compared to what we see on sun. This is the first simulation which has produced such spots and I am genuinely excited about the results!
As always the simulation below have generated more questions than it answered. It will surely keep be busy for the coming months. Lets see what comes next…
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That would be cool if you added the Heliosphere into it also . It’s still cool though .
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yay!
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cool animated photo.
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Very cool visualizations!
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Magnificent.
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FANTASTICO!
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cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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X-rays, from our planet,
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X ray harms the wbs when we are suffering from the blood cancer
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E=mc2 – définition :
Énergie et les microns ( les cordons ) = dernière définition de matière en large ( carré 2 )
Constant ( cube 3 )
Dimensionné ( quare 4 )
Exemple
Elum3 – énergie lumière
Emg4 – énergie magnétique
Emg4+k/rd – champs magnétique avec potassium radio danse.
Champ magnétique coloré avec possibilité de protection.
Pour cinéma au démonstration.
Et autres ?!
Explique:
Bouclier magnétique tourne plus vite que la lumière: phénomène polaire c’est explosion énergétique ( particule solaire et cosmique danc énergie d’lumière explosé pondent reprise de vitesse plus rapportent en chaleur ( ralentissement aux froid ) à la reprise mouvement planète, en ralentissent mouvement.
Planète tourne !!!
Gravité : énergie non connu ?!
Notre planète possède attirance magnétique !
Orbites à spirale,
C’est notre planète est sûr orbite de gravitation ( support gravitationnel stable )
La Lune :
Orbite transversal magnétique ( support lunaire à soupape )
Des vans, des vagues, des marées )
La pression magnétique
Réactions sur humain
Jupiter – des tempêtes éternels ( plus des lunes )
Saturne – des rochers magnétique sur point zéro entre nord et sud
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A helpful idea.
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That Looks EPIC.
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Great pic…
Its AWESOME
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Every star is an elektromagnetic dipol.
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