#solar wind

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Solar wind streaming from the Sun’s outer atmosphere l NASA Parker Solar Probe

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A Glimpse of the Solar Wind

In December 2024, Parker Solar Probe made its closest pass yet to our Sun. In doing so, it captured the detailed images seen here, where three coronal mass ejections -- giant releases of plasma, twisted by magnetic fields -- collide in the Sun's corona.  (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab; video credit: NASA Goddard; via Gizmodo) Read the full article

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Comet Lemmon is surfing the solar wind !

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Larissa Szporluk, from Dark Sky Question; "Solar Wind"

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This is the highest resolution at which we've ever seen a solar flare.

The powerful NSF Inouye Solar Telescope has just delivered absolutely mind-blowing observations of its first X-class solar flare.

On 8 August 2024, the telescope managed to capture one of the most powerful flares our Sun is capable of producing – at a remarkable resolution of just four Earths across. This level of detail reveals some of the finest structures we've ever seen associated with a solar flare, opening a new window into the Sun's most extreme eruptions.

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We need a solar sail probe to detect space tornadoes earlier, researchers say

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. But a constellation of spacecraft, including one that sails on sunlight, could help find the tornado-like features in time to protect equipment on Earth and in orbit.

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“In the Rays of the Solar Wind,” Rybachy Peninsula, Russia

Sergey Korolev

Northern Lights Photographer of the Year

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