Never-Before-Seen Structures Have Been Detected in Our Sun’s Corona

Using longer exposures and sophisticated processing techniques, scientists have taken extraordinarily high-fidelity pictures of the Sun’s outer atmosphere – what we call the corona – and discovered fine details that have never been detected before.

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But the research also presented a new mystery to probe, as well. At a distance of about 10 solar radii the solar wind suddenly changes character. But it returns to normal farther out from the Sun, indicating that there’s some interesting physics happening at 10 solar radii.

Magnetic field lines at 10 solar radii ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

But the research also presented a new mystery to probe, as well. At a distance of about 10 solar radii the solar wind suddenly changes character. But it returns to normal farther out from the Sun, indicating that there’s some interesting physics happening at 10 solar radii.

Magnetic field lines at 10 solar radii ?

Great work from Stereo A there.

Magnetic field lines yes, but this is a plasma, the movement of ions changes the local magnetic field in difficult to understand ways.