Scientists illuminate cause of sun's 'perfect storm'
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 13:01
in Astronomy & Space
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists, including three from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center, uncovers the origin and cause of an extreme space weather event that occurred on July 22, 2012 at the sun and generated the fastest solar wind speed ever recorded directly by a solar wind instrument.