Open AccessLiving with an active star
Author(s) -
Breen Andy
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-4004.2001.42335.x
Subject(s) - atmosphere (unit) , interplanetary space , star (game theory) , interplanetary spaceflight , astrobiology , astronomy , physics , object (grammar) , astrophysics , meteorology , computer science , solar wind , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , magnetic field
Observations have shown that the Sun is far from being a stable, unchanging object. Rather, we live within the outer atmosphere of a variable star. Andy Breen presents a summary of a meeting that drew together new results from observations and computational modelling of the Sun, interplanetary space and the upper atmosphere of the Earth.