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    Citizen Scientists discover Cyclical Pattern of Complexity in Solar Storms

    July 7, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Example images showing three example CMEs in ranked order of subjective complexity increasing from low (left-hand image) through to high (right-hand image). Credit: NASA Heliospheric Imager data courtesy of RAL Space, made available by the UK Solar System Data Centre.

    Findings could help forecasters predict these potentially devastating space weather events. Citizen scientists found that solar storms become more complex as the Sun’s 11-year activity cycle reaches its maximum.

    ‘Protect our Planet from Solar Storms’, a research project launched by the University of Reading, the Science Museum Group and Zooniverse in May 2018, asked volunteers to evaluate pairs of images of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and decide which seemed the most visually complex.

    Overall, the project ranke...

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