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New model decodes the Sun’s prominences—floating mountains of plasma larger than Earth
The study may help predict dangerous solar storms and protect satellites and power grids.
Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions—appear at mid-latitudes and ...
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New calculations explain the Sun’s cool plasma clouds in its hot corona
The Sun’s outermost atmosphere, the corona, seethes at temperatures above one million degrees. Yet draped across it are ...
Diagram of the Sun’s interior and outer atmosphere, showing the core, radiative and convection zones — separated by the tachocline — and surface features such as sunspots, flares, the chromosphere and ...
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