The Sun, our life-sustaining star, is also a for midable force capable of unleashing immense energy bursts. CMEs, massive eruptions from the Sun’s outer corona, travel at blistering speeds of up to 3,000 km/s, carrying charged particles that can disrupt satellites, knock out power grids, and interfere with communication networks.
The research, published in the Astrophysical Journal, can help give a complete picture of the Sun's inner workings.
The minimum temperature was recorded at 6 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average.
The city woke up to dense fog and recorded a minimum of 7.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below season's normal.
The eclipse will be visible in the region covering the Western Pacific Ocean, Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, eastern South America, northeastern North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean
"In the past, we didn't know that stars could flare in the millimetre range, so this is the first time we have gone looking for millimetre flares," MacGregor said.
The newly discovered planet orbits 110 times more distant from its star than the Earth does from the sun (or 20 times the distance between the sun and Jupiter).
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, totally or partly obscuring the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
The transit of Mercury helps measure our distance to the Sun.
The next solar eclipse, although not a total eclipse, is set to happen on December 26, 2019 and will be visible in the Middle East, including Qatar.
