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Science for the Public, March 13, 2013. W. Jeffrey Hughes, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy, Director of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Boston University.
Professor Hughes discusses the importance of solar cycles in an era when we depend on electric grids, satellites and all forms of electronic communication. He explains the dynamics of solar magnetic storms and their relationship to solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We learn why scientists are closely monitoring the Sun's activity in 2013, and why it is hard to predict which CMEs will penetrate the Earth's protective magnetosphere.
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