Science news articles about 'solar corona'

  • Warm coronal loops offer clue to mysteriously hot solar atmosphere

    ... Space Flight Center’s Solar Physics Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. Klimchuk will present his ... Fl. X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the solar corona affect Earth and its atmosphere. For satellites ...
  • Queen's scientists discover giant solar twists

    ... Science, has revealed the existence of a new breed of solar wave, called the Alfvén wave. ... kind. The Sun is not as quiet as many people think. "The solar corona, visible from Earth only during a total ...
  • Scientists find solution to solar puzzle

    ... discovered evidence for the existence of a new breed of solar wave, called the Alfvén wave ... kind. The Sun is not as 'quiet' as many people think. The solar corona, visible from Earth only during a total ...
  • Caltech visiting associate champions the study of solar eclipses in the modern era

    ... Williams College. There, he will gather data to continue his research into the heating of the solar corona, which has a temperature of millions of degrees. "We'll be looking for waves in the corona," ...
  • Why Solar Nanoflares Matter

    The mystery of the solar corona may be resolved. ScientificBlogging has covered this, as did space.com, Space Fellowship, ... money quote, too: "Why is the sun's corona so darned hot?" said study member ...
  • Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields

    ... locations proposed by the computer model were compared with measurements of the speed of the gas coming from the solar corona. The comparison showed the gas was moving outward at up to 100,000 mph, 1 ...
  • Tiny flares responsible for outsized heat of sun's atmosphere

    ... their model, the team observed gas emissions in the solar corona using the NASA-funded X-Ray ... the cooling conducts down to the relatively cold solar surface. The gas there is heated to about 1 million ...
  • EIT waves and coronal magnetic field diagnosis

    ... newly published paper, Dr. Chen demonstrated that it is feasible to diagnose the magnetic field in the solar corona using the observations of "EIT wave" velocity profiles. With the application of ...

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