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PPPL Experiment Provides The First Direct Observation Of The Process Responsible For Solar Flares That Can Impact Communications On Earth
March 07, 2023
WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news:

Energetic electrons from a powerful process that underlies solar flares -- explosive bursts of plasma particles that can disrupt satellites, cell phone service and powerlines on Earth -- have been detected for the first time by an experiment by researchers at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy' . . .

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