NASA's first mission to “touch” the sun with the Parker Solar Probe may have uncovered a terrifying source of solar wind.
NASA’s mission to “touch” the sun with the Parker Solar Probe has uncovered something truly intriguing. According to a
from the University of California – Berkeley, the Parker Solar Probe recently flew into a fast solar wind and found its mysterious source.for the first time, traveling closer to our solar system’s center than any spacecraft before it. Now, in yet another shocking first, the probe has followed solar winds to their source, learning that the blasts of wind are shooting out of the sun’s surface like jets of water.
The winds shoot out of holes in the corona, the new research notes. These coronal holes are places where the magnetic field lines emerge from the sun’s surface without looping back inward, as we often see in images of the sun. The holes are most often found at the poles of the sun during its quiet periods, the research also notes.As such, the dangerous solar winds produced by them don’t normally hit Earth.
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