What processes provide energy to the solar wind as it travels away from the Sun and throughout the solar system? This is what a recent study published in S

What processes provide energy to the solar wind as it travels away from the Sun and throughout the solar system? This is what a recent study published in S

Ever since the 1950s discovery of the solar wind - the constant flow of charged particles from the sun - there's been a stark disconnect between this outpouring and the sun itself. As it approaches Earth, the solar wind is gusty and turbulent. But near the sun where it originates, this wind is structured in distinct rays, much like a child's simple drawing of the sun. The details of the transition from defined rays in the corona, the sun's upper atmosphere, to the solar wind have been, until now, a mystery.

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