A New Kind of Explosion on the Sun
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Music Credit: Light Hearted Angst by Dewey Dellay
In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, scientists have just seen a new type of magnetic explosion. Known as forced or controlled magnetic reconnection, this process occurs when a nearby eruption causes tangled magnetic field lines to explosively snap and realign, flinging out particles and energy. The discovery may help scientists understand a key mystery about the Sun’s atmosphere.
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Scientist
- Abhishek Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology)
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Producers
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
- Genna Duberstein (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Writer
- Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems)
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Visualizer
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Narrator
- Chris Smith (USRA)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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This page was originally published on Tuesday, December 17, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.
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