NASA REVEALS DARK SECRETS OF THE SUN DURING TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
When the Sun goes dark, there is one part of it that shines brighter than everything else — the corona. The outer atmosphere of our star has literally shed light on many mysteries and continues to hide many more in plain sight.
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Benjamin Boe, a researcher on Habbal’s team who coauthored a study recently published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, found several unexpected things in 14 years’ worth of hi-res solar eclipse images.
“The most surprising thing to me is the number of fine-scale structures that we have been able to see in the corona,” Boe tells SYFY WIRE. “These hint that much of the corona is not closed, but actually open magnetic field lines which extend into space. Our work points to missing components and incorrect assumptions in the models that need to be addressed.”
Most previous models assumed that the majority of field lines around the sun are closed. Because the sun is essentially a gigantic orb of plasma floating in space, it behaves like any other gas.
Hmmmmmm. "open magnetic field lines which extend into space". What's that suggest to you folks? Seriously, mainstream astrophysicists and their media sycophants are just stuck on stupid. Look at what’s claimed in the last line of the above … that because the sun is a plasma, it behaves like "any other gas". What utter nonsense. Plasmas are made of charged particles so therefore plasmas can do things gases cannot do, like conduct electricity. And since moving charges make magnetic fields, plasmas also can have them. Plus, in ordinary gas, all the particles behave roughly the same way. Not so plasmas, especially in an electric or magnetic field. A magnetic field, for example, can create avery fast moving particles, like a jet, for example. And particles in a plasma can interact via electromagnetism, and do so at far greater distances than an ordinary gas. That means waves are more important in plasmas than gases. One such wave is an Alfvén wave for which there's no real analogue ordinary gases. In fact, Alfvén waves may explain why the temperature of the solar corona – a plasma – is millions of degrees, while on the surface, it is only thousands. Another characteristic of plasmas is that they can be held in place by magnetic fields. And since we now know that magnetic fields are ubiquitous in space, the notion that solar plasmas behave like any any other gas is so utterly ridiculous we can only wonder where this article got such an idiotic idea. Probably a mainstream astrophysicist.