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Northumbria University: Discovery of Elusive Solar Waves That Could Power the Sun's Corona
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Oct. 25 (TNSjou) -- Northumbria University issued the following news release:
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Discovery of elusive solar waves that could power the Sun's corona
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfven waves in the Sun's corona - elusive magnetic waves that scientists have been searching for since the 1940s.
The discovery, published today in Nature Astronomy, was made using unprecedent
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