Research
Tiny Solar Whirlpools May Hold the Secret to the Sun’s Blistering Corona
Universe Today · By Andy Tomaswick ·
The Brief
- Universe Today reports on a new paper by Katariina Nykyri of Embry-Riddle that proposes tiny solar whirlpools may help explain the Sun's hot corona.
- The article is the second in a few weeks on research into the temperature gap between the Sun's surface and its corona.
- The source says more data from various solar missions continue to feed this line of research.
Why it matters
The temperature gap between the Sun's surface and its much hotter corona is an open problem in solar physics, and a candidate mechanism for it bears on how we model the Sun's outer atmosphere and the space weather it drives.
Who’s affected
- solar physicists
- space weather researchers
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- #corona
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For the second time in a few weeks, we’re writing about research into the temperature gap between the Sun’s surface and its corona. More and more data from various missions continue to feed this wave of discovery. A new paper by Katariina Nykyri of Embry-Riddle, recently…