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  • Twisting Magnetic Waves on the Sun: A Key to the Corona Heat Mystery?

    Twisting Magnetic Waves on the Sun: A Key to the Corona Heat Mystery?

    New Observations Point to Twisting Magnetic Waves Scientists using the world’s most powerful solar telescope report a breakthrough: they have detected small-scale twisting magnetic waves on the Sun. These subtle twists, traced through high-resolution data, could be the missing piece in the long-standing puzzle of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—reaches temperatures far hotter than…