A new study by Queen's University Belfast and Aberystwyth University indicates that the Sun's magnetic field is 10 times more powerful than previously thought. By analyzing a solar flare on September 10, 2017 using the Swedish one-meter Solar Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma in the Canary
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Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun
New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed.Their findings have been reported in Nature Astronomy.After examining data gathered over a 10-year period, the team from Northumbria's Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering found that magnetic waves in the sun's
The Sun’s “identical twin” may have been discovered
Orbital Forensics Hint at Sun’s Long-Lost Planet
Our solar system is like a 4.6-billion-year-old crime scene.Crater-ridden surfaces, misaligned planetary orbits and streams of interplanetary debris are the cosmic equivalents of blood spatters on the wall and skid marks from a getaway car. These and other clues tell of a chaotic beginning for our planetary family.Buried in those
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is attempting to touch the sun
We have sent probes zooming throughout our local solar system. There have been human landings on the moon, asteroid touchdowns, and planetary flybys aplenty. Voyager 1 is still zooming off into the deep stretch of interstellar space beaming us back information until the mid-2020s. We’ve been to a lot of
Astrophysicists Just Saw an Amazing Structure in the Sun’s Outer Atmosphere
The sun is a giant, churning ball of gases, with an atmosphere that flings streamers and blobs of particles into space. Now, astrophysicists have found that inside the sun's atmosphere, what may seem like cosmic clutter hides some beautiful order.Particularly, they found and imaged finely detailed streamers, blobs and puffs
