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Powerful magnetic waves ‘baking sun’s corona and driving solar wind’

London, July 28 (ANI): Why the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is 20 times hotter than its surface and how the solar wind is accelerated up to 1.5 million miles per hour have deceived scientists for decades, but it seems they are now one step closer to solving the mystery.

An international team of scientists has discovered that powerful magnetic field ripples, called Alfven waves, might be driving the solar wind and heating much of the corona.

Using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite, they traced the movements of this solar ‘seaweed’ and measured how much energy is being carried by the Alfven waves.

The scientists found that the waves carry more energy than previously thought.

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