Author: António Sampaio

Mathematical Morphology is an image processing tool with the capacity of filtering the image, remove unwanted features, or highlighting important features. It can be applied to almost any field that requires image processing. Some of the fields where it’s applied are: medicine, civil engineering, applications

Magnetic helicity is a measure of the twist and linkage of a magnetic field. Magnetic helicity’s dynamics can tell us important information about CMEs (coronal mass ejections), which can be used for space weather forecasting and prediction, and, therefore, for preventing technological and social hazards

Although here, on earth, we, as humans, perceive the sun as this element with an apparent constant behavior, taking a closer and sharper look, with tools that gather data that humans by themselves can’t, we realize this is not true. The Sun shows an approximate

What if I told you that the wine of Space tastes much better than the one of the Earth? And that in the near future, more than we think, we will not depend on the beautiful days of Sun to have renewable energy in large

The solar storm of 1859, also known as the Carrington Event, was a large storm that occurred at the beginning of September 1859, just a few months before the solar maximum of 1860. A solar coronal mass ejection (CME) struck the Earth's magnetosphere and induced

Solar activity is reflected through the Sun's cycle, which has a periodicity of 11 years, and it can also be called the Solar magnetic activity cycle, Sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle. The cycle has an active 7-year period during which solar flare events are probable

The Sun… idolatrized from ancient civilizations people to 60s rock legends, its presence has been acquainted by humanity from early ages, providing it a godlike status, or even dedicated celebrations of its “prevalence against darkness”. This big ball of plasma  has always been there for

We are back!   Are you ready for our 10th edition?    In this year’s edition of Coimbra Space Summer School, our focus is on solar radiation storms. Solar radiation storms are events that occur when a large-scale magnetic eruption accelerates charged particles in the solar atmosphere