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    Why does the Sun’s Corona Sizzle at 1 Million °F?

    May 8, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    A team of physicists, including NJIT’s Gregory Fleishman, has discovered previously undetected energy in the Sun’s coronal loops. Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

    A team of physicists, including NJIT’s Gregory Fleishman, has discovered previously undetected energy in the Sun’s coronal loops. Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

    The Sun’s corona, invisible to the human eye except when it appears briefly as a fiery halo of plasma during a solar eclipse, remains a puzzle even to scientists who study it closely. Located 1,300 miles from the star’s surface, it is more than a hundred times hotter than lower layers much closer to the fusion reactor at the Sun’s core...

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    Implications for Slow Solar Wind Formation by Solar Reconnection

    May 12, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on June 15, 1999, shows streaks of bright light. This represents material streaming out from the sun (which is obscured in this picture by the central red disk so that it cannot overwhelm the image of the fainter material around it). Two other NASA spacecraft measured this material closer to Earth to better understand what causes this regular outflow, known as the solar wind, from the sun. Credit: NASA/SOHO

    This image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on June 15, 1999, shows streaks of bright light. This represents material streaming out from the sun (which is obscured in this picture by the central red disk so that it cannot overwhelm the image of the fainter material around it). Two other NASA spacecraft measured this material closer to Earth to better understand what causes this regular outflow, known as the solar wind, from the sun. Credit: NASA/SOHO

    Solar flares and coronal mass ejections explode in the sun’s hot atmosphere, the corona, sending light and high energy particles out into space. The corona is also constantly releasing a stream of charged particles, aka solar wind. Even the slowest moving solar wind can reach speeds of ~700,000 mph...

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    Understanding the Magnetic Sun

    January 30, 2016, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    comparison of solar magnetic field lines in 2011 (left) and 2014

    This comparison shows the relative complexity of the solar magnetic field between January 2011 (left) and July 2014. In January 2011, three years after solar minimum, the field is still relatively simple, with open field lines concentrated near the poles. At solar maximum, in July 2014, the structure is much more complex, with closed and open field lines poking out all over – ideal conditions for solar explosions. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Bridgman

    The sun sports twisting, towering loops and swirling cyclones into the solar upper atmosphere, the million-degree corona – but cannot be seen in visible light. Then, in the 1950s, we got our first glimpse of this balletic solar material, which emits light only in wavelengths invisible to our eyes...

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