Tag: sun’s atmosphere
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Finding the Point of No Return: Mapping the Sun’s Shifting Outer Boundary for the First Time
Unveiling a solar frontier For the first time, scientists have produced detailed maps of the Sun’s outer atmosphere—the tenuous edge where solar material breaks free from the Sun’s magnetic grip and streams into the solar wind. This boundary, long speculated about by solar physicists, is not a fixed line but a dynamic, spiky frontier that…
