Tag Archive for 'Nanoflare'

Antolin et al spotted nanojets in the solar corona. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Scientific Visualization Studio.

IRIS Captures First-Ever Clear Images of Nanojets in Solar Corona

Sep 22, 2020 by News Staff

The solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere, is shaped and mysteriously heated to millions of degrees by the magnetic field of our star....

Dr Adrian Daw of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues have gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the Sun’s outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. Image credit: NASA / SDO.

NASA’s EUNIS Detects Evidence Supporting Coronal Heating Theory

Apr 29, 2015 by News Staff

Strong new evidence supports a theory that the Sun’s corona is heated by tiny explosions called nanoflares. Dr Adrian Daw of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...