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    Low-Energy Solar Particles from beyond Earth found near the Sun

    February 4, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Using data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, an SwRI-led team identified low-energy particles, the smoking gun pointing to interactions between slow- and fast-moving regions of the solar wind accelerating high-energy particles from beyond the orbit of Earth. Using Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (IS☉IS) instrument data, they measured low-energy particles in the near-Sun environment that had likely traveled back toward the Sun, slowing against the tide of the solar wind while still retaining surprising energies.

    Particles are smoking gun for solar wind interactions beyond Earth orbit...

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