New insights on solar flares support proposed explanation for particle-acceleration mechanism
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 14:10
in Astronomy & Space
For scientists studying the impacts of space weather, one of the central mysteries of solar flares - the colossal release of magnetic energy in the Sun's atmosphere that erupts with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs - is the means by which these explosions produce radiation and accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light within seconds.