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NASA’s Parker Probe Just Dived Into the Sun’s Atmosphere and Solved a Fiery Solar Mystery
The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Finds Evidence Of "Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin Atmosphere
Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is ...
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NASA Confirms Invisible Magnetic Wall Superheating the Sun’s Atmosphere From Millions of Miles Away
In a new paper published in Physical Review X, researchers present compelling evidence for a “helicity barrier”—a previously ...
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Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight
During a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed what the daredevil ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Just Solved a Key Mystery Behind the Sun’s Superheated Corona
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has collected data that evidences the theoretical “helicity barrier,” where turbulent dissipation behaves strangely.