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Science & Technology - Monday, March 8, 2010 13:18 - 0 Comments
Mega-tsunamis stoke up solar atmosphere
Physicists at the University of Sheffield have discovered that transition region quakes power the lower base of the Sun’s corona. The quakes take the form of mega-tsunamis generated by plasma jets. “We may now get a step closer to resolve one of the greatest puzzles of astrophysics—why the atmosphere of stars, like the Sun, is so much hotter than its surface,” says Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen. (Credit: U. Sheffield)
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—Physicists from the University of Sheffield are scheduled to reveal their recent discovery of transition region quakes on the Sun. The finding could shed light on solar mega-tsunamis. Continue…
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