Northumbria University: Helping to Uncover How the Solar Wind Gets Its Energy
September 01, 2024
September 01, 2024
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Sept. 1 (TNSres) -- Northumbria University issued the following news release:
Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun's supersonic "solar wind," a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the Solar System, continues to receive energy once it leaves the Sun. Now, thanks to a fortunate line up of two spacecraft currently in space studying the Sun, they may have discovered the answer.
New research provides con . . .
Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun's supersonic "solar wind," a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the Solar System, continues to receive energy once it leaves the Sun. Now, thanks to a fortunate line up of two spacecraft currently in space studying the Sun, they may have discovered the answer.
New research provides con . . .