Images from sun's edge reveal origins of solar wind
Friday, September 2, 2016 - 05:01
in Astronomy & Space
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. 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.