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Ground-based solar telescope sees the ‘building blocks’ of flares for first time
Coronal loops are giant arches of superheated plasma guided by the Sun’s magnetic field. These loops can precede solar flares ...
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World’s Largest Solar Telescope Reveals Sun’s Smallest Flare Loops
The Sun just bared details so fine they were once thought unreachable plasma loops as narrow as 21 kilometers, less than the ...
On August 8, 2024, the sun emitted a highly-energetic X1.3-class solar flare. X-class flares like this one are incredibly ...
This X-class solar flare will likely trigger coronal mass ejections, which hurl magnetic fields and charged particles into the solar system at up to 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) per second.
The images, captured with the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal arcs of hot gas just 10 to 30 miles wide that follow the sun’s magnetic fields. Earlier instruments could only ...
A description of the solar system including the eight planets, the asteroid belt, dwarf planets, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.
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