“A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun,” reports the Associated Press, “revealing countless little ‘campfires” flaring everywhere. Scientists on Thursday released the first images taken by Solar Orbiter, launched from Cape Canaveral in February. The orbiter was about 48 million miles from the sun — about halfway between Earth and the sun —…
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Solar Orbiter’s 1st views of the sun
Solar Orbiter’s new views are the closest images of the sun taken so far. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/solar-orbiters-first-views-of-the-sun…
Closest images ever taken of the sun show ‘campfires’ near its surface
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the closest ever images of the sun, revealing miniature solar flares on its surface dubbed “campfires” Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2249193-closest-images-ever-taken-of-the-sun-show-campfires-near-its-surface/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A new telescope to study solar flares
The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-telescope-solar-flares.html…
Researchers identify role of turbulence for plasmas heating in solar flares
On July 2, The Astrophysical Journal published a numerical study on a solar flare current sheet (CS). Dr. Ye Jing from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his collaborators in this study investigated the turbulent radiation features found in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) observations. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-role-turbulence-plasmas-solar-flares.html…
Researchers shed new light on solar flares
Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new combination of physical models. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-solar-flares.html…