Super-efficient electron acceleration in a macroscopic volume above the flare arcade. Right frame shows the flare in extreme ultraviolet (yellow) on September 10, 2017, and location where most of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ESA's Solar Orbiter mission will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury at its closest approach. (CREDIT: ESA) The star at ...
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy — equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once — physicists still haven’t ...
A new study offers direct evidence showing where near-light speed particle acceleration occurs inside the largest explosion known in the solar system, the solar flare. Solar flares are among the most ...
A new study offers the first direct evidence showing where near-light speed particle acceleration occurs inside the largest explosion known in the solar system, the solar flare. CREDIT Sijie Yu of ...