Saturday, 16 December 2017

Lessons from a solar storm chaser

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Lessons from a solar storm chaser

05:34 minutes · TEDGlobal 2017

Space physicist Miho Janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the Sun and can disrupt life on Earth (while also producing amazing auroras). How do you study the atmosphere on the Sun, which burns at temperatures of up to around 10 million degrees Kelvin? With math! Join the TED Fellow as she shares her work trying to better understand how the Sun affects us here on Earth.

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