The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has traced floods of energetic electrons hurled out by the Sun back to two distinct sources, marking a major advance in space weather research. The ...

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The Sun is a very hot, very big ball of gas at the center of our solar system. Its surface can reach a blistering 10,800 ...

Solar Orbiter has identified the Sun’s dual “engines” for superfast electrons: explosive flares and sweeping coronal mass ejections. By catching over 300 events close to their origin, the mission has ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

Solar Orbiter observed more than 300 bursts of ‘Solar Energetic Electrons’ between November 2020 and December 2022. For the first time, we clearly see the connection between the energetic electrons in ...

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So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

Solar Orbiter observed more than 300 bursts of ‘Solar Energetic Electrons’ between November 2020 and December 2022. For the first time, we clearly see the connection between the energetic electrons in ...