Thanks to a novel technique, scientists are now a step closer to solving a key mystery about the origins of solar wind.
The results bring us closer to solving a fundamental mystery about solar wind's origins and its connections with other solar system bodies.Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute , NASA, and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research detailed their ground-breaking new observation technique in the study, which involves takingWhile the U.S.
"We've known since the 1950s about the outflow of the solar wind. As the solar wind evolves, it can drive space weather and affect things like power grids, satellites, and astronauts," said SwRI Principal Scientist Dr. Dan Seaton in a"The origins of the solar wind itself and its structure remain somewhat mysterious. While we have a basic understanding of processes, we haven't had observations like these before, so we had to work with a gap in information," he added.
"No one had monitored what the Sun's corona was doing in U.V. at this height for that amount of time. We had no idea if it would work or what we would see," he said."The results were very exciting. For the first time, we have high-quality observations that completely unite our observations of the Sun and the heliosphere as a single system."
"Now that we can image the Sun's middle corona, we can connect what PUNCH sees back to its origins and have a more complete view of how the solar wind interacts with the rest of the solar system," he explained.
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