5 results for "Alfvén waves"

Recent studies using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter have provided compelling evidence that Alfvén waves play a critical role in accelerating and heating the solar...

A decades-old mystery about the sun’s outer atmosphere has been solved by researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Their discovery shows that reflected Alfvén waves are responsible for the…

Posted on Dec 5, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, Science Since it’s launch in 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned unprecedented data from near the Sun, culminating in new discoveries...

In an extraordinary event, a massive solar storm that erupted in April 2023 temporarily disrupted Earth's magnetosphere, opening up a rare, two-hour magnetic highway between the Sun and Earth. This...

Posted on Jul 18, 2018 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science, Technology Crossing this boundary with a spacecraft will be similar, symbolically, to the moment when the Voyager 1 probe entered interstellar...