Unraveling the Sun’s Secrets: New Indian Solar Mission Discoveries
Data from India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission has provided new evidence that magnetic field reconnection—the snapping and reforming of tangled magnetic lines—supplies approximately 93% of the energy required to maintain the Sun’s corona at millions of degrees. According to a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, this mechanism compensates for energy lost during frequent solar … Read more