Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun’s super-heating mystery - Tech Explorist
 

Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun?s super-heating mystery Tech ExploristFor more than a half-century, since the problem of coronal heating was discovered in the 1940s, astronomers have tried to establish why the Sun?s outer atmosphere is so hot. Solving the riddle would allow scientists to better understand and predict solar weather, which can pose serious threats to Earth?s power grid. And step one is determining where the heating of the sun?s outer atmosphere begins and ends?a puzzle with no shortage of theories. Scientists at the University of Michigan may have solved the mystery with help from NASA?s Parker Solar Probe. Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 a...



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