"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Scientists discovered tiny jets on the Sun that power both fast and slow solar wind. These jets eject particles and shape ...

Solar Orbiter captured images of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For nearly five years, a Sun-observing probe has been making ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...

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The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will be the first to image the sun’s corona - also known ...

New observations from Solar Orbiter confirm tiny plasma jets play a key role in both fast and slow solar wind.

a flow structure that transports heat from the sun's hidden interior to its surface. The researchers' ... Mystery of 'Slow' Solar Wind Unveiled by Solar Orbiter Mission May 28, 2024 — Scientists ...

To reach their conclusions, Chitta and his colleagues studied data collected by Solar Orbiter in late 2022 and early 2023, when the spacecraft had made its scheduled close approaches to the sun.