Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have spent the last 16 years trying to understand the process of magnetic reconnection, a natural phenomenon that ...
HANOVER, N.H. – April 28, 2022 – When magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, they create explosions that can release massive amounts of energy. On the sun, the merging of opposing field ...
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Prof. WANG Rongsheng and Prof. LU Quanming, used data from the ...
Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating process that helps explain how the atmosphere that surrounds the sun called the "solar corona" can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that ...
A new magnetohydrodynamic simulation demonstrates the merging of wound magnetic structures, create tiny, high-speed plasma ...
Researchers uncover the long-hidden process that helps explain why the Sun's corona can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it. Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating ...