2026-04-22 15:08 UTC
After all these years, we're are still learning fundamentally new things about the Sun & how it interacts with Earth.
NASA's PUNCH mission is creating 3D "tomographic" maps of how solar eruptions blow past our planet & spread out through the solar system.
https://punch.space.swri.edu/punch_news.php?story=2026-04-09_punch_news_punch-generates-3-D-tomography #space #science #nature
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@coreyspowell@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 15:09
From Earth, we can study the Sun only from the side. ESA's Solar Orbiter lets us look down from above, revealing another side of how the Sun works. This new image shows magnetic fields wrapped around the Sun's south pole, which help drive the 11-year solar cycle. https://www.mps.mpg.de/sun-first-glimpse-of-polar-magnetic-field-in-motion #space #science #astronomy #nature