NASA's mission to 'touch the sun' reveals bizarre magnetic fields and 'rogue waves' in corona

Initial results show bizarre behavior of the sun's magnetic field, including reversals that took just seconds. They also found thousands of"giant rogue waves," and that when these passed the spacecraft, the solar wind sped up to over 310,000 miles per hour.Nature

The Parker Solar Probe has come closer to the sun than any other man-made object. During its final three flybys, scheduled for 2024 and 2025, it will come within 3.83 million miles of the sun's surface. The initial flybys that have now been completed saw the Parker Solar Probe orbit the sun at a distance of around 15 million miles at its closest point.

"There were thousands of these rogue waves seen in the ten days we were near the sun. We wonder if the rogue waves are what heated the corona." The Parker Solar Probe continues to orbit the sun, getting a little closer on each round trip. Activity on the sun increases and decreases on an 11-year cycle. At present, it is in the 'solar minimum' with fewer sunspots than normal appearing. Over the coming years, activity is going to pick up until it reaches the 'solar maximum' around 2024—towards the end of the mission.

so what does this mean ? 🙄 heat for earth citizens

Please don't mess with the sun. It's hot enough as it is now.

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Oooooh 😯, magnetic 🧲 fields. I am so physics illiterate. Blow me away.

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