Written by Dr. Shirsh Lata Soni, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Iowa, IA, USA A wind that never stops… We know the Sun is the main source of energy…
Tag: Sun
New Breakthrough on Solar Wind Unveiled by India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)!
You may wonder that based on their limited observation, in the early days, people thought the Sun had an atmosphere, like Earth, experiencing seasons and even forming clouds. These clouds were thought to be responsible for the dark spots observed on the Sun’s surface (now the same is known the sunspot, a dark spot appears on the sun’s surface due to low temperature region).
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: Closest Ever to the Sun
The Sun is a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium 150 million km away from us, and is vital to life on Earth. The Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is 300 times hotter than its outer plasma layer, which appears to defy thermodynamics and is still a mystery. Parker Solar Probe is trying to unviel the mystery of the Sun.