Tendrils of plasma near the surface of the sun emerge from realignments of magnetic fields and pump heat into the corona, the sun’s tenuous outer atmosphere, a study suggests.. The new ...

These filaments are not only visually striking but are also linked to a Weibel-like current instabilitythat generates self-amplifying magnetic fields, further destabilizing the plasma. A ...

Solar filaments are large, elongated structures of dense, cooler plasma that are suspended above the sun's surface by magnetic fields. When the magnetic fields that support a filament become ...

The Sun’s magnetic field constantly blasts particles from its surface into space. On Earth, we experience this steady stream of charged particles as the regular solar wind, which fuels aurorae.

When a filament erupts, the arc shatters into space, ripping free of the sun’s magnetic field to reveal a glowing scar of hotter, brighter plasma where that magnetic field line ran.

On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. Source - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Laser experiments mimic cosmic explosions and planetary cores Date: October 28, 2014 Source: American Physical Society Summary: Researchers are finding ways to understand some of the mysteries of ...

b, Magnetic field slice (transverse magnetic field component B y) along the y-axis midplane, at the same time, illustrating the presence of strong filaments associated with the Weibel instability.

These magnetic filaments appear in pairs or clusters, sometimes even stacked and equally spaced. ... creating swirling eddies of plasma. Then,weak magnetic fields wrap around these eddies, ...

The team also found that at high plasma densities, the emergence of ELMs can be controlled by adjusting the topology of the magnetic field lines confining the plasma. In a tokamak, these field lines ...