Scientists Spot Long-Hypothesized Twisting Magnetic Waves in the Sun’s Corona with NSF Inouye Solar Telescope, Hinting at a Hidden Engine Driving Key Solar Phenomena

For more than half a century, scientists have been puzzled by one of the Sun’s unsolved mysteries: why is its outer atmosphere, the corona, millions of degrees hotter than the solar surface below? This superheated crown not only glows brilliantly during total solar eclipses but also spews out the solar wind—a fluctuating stream of charged particles that bathes Earth and the rest of the solar system. The post Scientists Spot Long-Hypothesized Twisting Magnetic Waves in the Sun’s Corona with NSF I