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Imperial College-London: Origin of Superfast Solar Wind Found by Spacecraft Flying Close to the Sun
June 16, 2023
LONDON, England, June 16 (TNSjou) -- Imperial College London issued the following news:

The Parker Solar Probe has flown close enough to the surface of the Sun to detect the fine structure of the solar wind close to where it is generated.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, a team of researchers including from Imperial College London used data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe to explain how the solar wind is capable of surpassing speeds of one million m . . .

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