Tag: solar telescope
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Sun Magnetic Twists Hint at the Corona Heating Mystery
Overview: Tiny Twists, Big Questions Scientists using the world’s most powerful solar telescope say they have detected small-scale magnetic twists on the surface and lower atmosphere of the Sun. These subtle, rapidly evolving twists could be the missing piece scientists have sought for decades in explaining why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, becomes dramatically…
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Twisting Magnetic Waves on the Sun Could Reveal Clues to Coronal Heating Mystery
Scientists Spot Twisting Magnetic Waves on the Sun In a breakthrough for solar physics, researchers using the world’s most powerful solar telescope report seeing small-scale, twisting magnetic waves in the sun’s atmosphere. The discovery, described as a potentially pivotal clue in the decades-long coronal heating puzzle, could illuminate why the sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—becomes millions…
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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…