New research shows that solar flares are six times hotter than thought and calls for updated sun models that could improve ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study ...

"We were excited by recent discoveries that a process called magnetic reconnection heats ions 6.5 times as much as electrons, ...

UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the ...

Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening.

A groundbreaking study has revealed that solar flares can reach astonishing temperatures of 108 million degrees Fahrenheit ...

The star at the center of the solar system does more than provide light and warmth. It also acts as the most powerful ...

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For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up has ...

Particles within solar flares may reach temperatures more than six times higher than scientists previously believed—offering ...

Coronal loops often appear before solar flares erupt. Flares occur when magnetic fields twist, snap, and reconnect. Until now, telescopes only resolved loop bundles, not individual strands.

A plethora of latest results from the Hinode solar observatory contains a wealth of new discoveries. This includes the discovery of a source of the slow solar wind and the observation of a superhot ...